Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
"Microsoft Sues Justice Department to Protest Electronic Gag Order" By: Yilu Zhang April 20th,2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/technology/microsoft-sues-us-over-orders-barring-it-from-revealing-surveillance.html?_r=0 Last week, Microsoft launched a court battle on the offensive against the US government’s use…
New surveillance program in the NJ transit system sparks privacy concerns By: Rodrigo Moncho Stefani April 20th, 2016 Panel 1 Video surveillance seems relatively normal in modern society. Maybe not…
Today's news roundup: Google continues to run afoul of European antitrust regulators. A newly-declassified FISA Court judgement from November ruled that "backdoor" warrantless email searches are legal under the Constitution. Microsoft has sued the US…
Article 29 Working Party expresses "strong concerns" over EU-U.S. Privacy Shield: http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/483814/Data+Protection+Privacy/Article+29+Working+Party+Expresses+Strong+Concerns+about+the+EUUS+Privacy+Shield+Agreement Daniel Radcliffe to star in "Privacy" play off broadway: http://variety.com/2016/legit/news/daniel-radcliffe-privacy-play-off-broadway-1201751421/ MaxMind locates digital center of the U.S. at a farm in…
PANAMA PAPERS: A RESULT OF SELECTIVE GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE Topic: Government Surveillance By: Aluizio Porcaro Rausch (Panel 2) Post: Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and…
April 14th, 2016 Cell Site Location Information and United States v. Jones By: William Simoneaux This post by the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses a recent decision upholding the lawfulness of…
Two Consequences of a New Encryption Bill By: Sawyer Williams April 14th, 2016 The Senate Intelligence Committee released a draft of its hotly anticipated encryption bill on Wednesday. The legislation,…
Topic: Privacy, Public Safety, and the Fourth Amendment By: Andrew Tepper April 14th, 2016 Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/first-came-the-breathalyzer-now-meet-the-roadside-police-textalyzer/ Texting while driving is a public safety concern and many states have imposed laws…
Cell Phone Anti-Encryption Measures: the Key, But to What? By: Jackson Yates April 14th, 2016 Earlier this year, California Democratic state legislator Jim Cooper introduced Assembly Bill 1681, which would…
April 14th, 2016 By: Shangjun Tang Network Neutrality (or Net Neutrality) is the principle that all network traffic should be treated equally, without discrimination based on the content of the…