Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
By: Charlie O’Toole Responding to these articles: http://fortune.com/2015/06/18/shutterfly-lawsuit-facial-recognition/ http://www.natlawreview.com/article/tag-you-re-it-biometric-information-privacy-act-class-action-against-shutterfly In June, 2015, Brian Norberg filed a class action lawsuit in Illinois federal court claiming that Shutterfly, an online vendor of…
Congress Considers Changes to FCRA to Expand Consumer Credit Files and Limit Use of Credit Reports for Employment Decisions By: Eline Declerck https://www.carltonfields.com/congress-considers-changes-to-fcra-to-expand-consumer-credit-files-and-limit-use-of-credit-reports-for-employment-decisions-01-21-2016/ (1/21/2016) This article written by Jeffrey Rood…
Apple and the US Government are at impasse after the government secured a court order requiring Apple's assistance in unlocking one of the San Bernardino killer's iPhone. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/technology/apples-stance-highlights-a-more-confrontational-tech-industry.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 In…
Please see below re: a summer study opportunity below at the UvA: Online activities quite often involve transfers of personal data between the European Union (EU) and the United States…
A small email provider and its customers have mobilized to force the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum…
The discovery that the university is monitoring UC Berkeley network traffic has sparked outrage among faculty members who see such undisclosed surveillance as a significant threat to privacy.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/technology/at-uc-berkeley-a-new-digital-privacy-protest.html, http://www.dailycal.org/2016/02/02/web-cyber-controversy/. A federal…
A group from Stanford showed that the MEMS gyroscopes found on modern smart phones are sufficiently sensitive to measure acoustic signals in the vicinity of the phone, making it possible…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Google alleging the company has been collecting and data mining children’s data and Internet searches on…
In the wake of the attacks on Paris, debate in the United States has again looked determining the appropriate balance between privacy and security, especially with regard to encryption. Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/18/the-paris-attacks-have-shifted-the-momentum-in-the-privacy-surveillance-debate/.…
This past week, Fortune reported that U.S. retailers were using facial recognition software to target shoplifters. The technology works by scanning the face of customers entering a store and seeking…