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Google negotiating with FTC over Safari cookie bypass
The FTC may have learned from the backlash over the $25,000 fine the FCC imposed on Google for intercepting wireless traffic with its Street View cars. According to a published…
No Asking Sexual Activity: NASA v. Nelson Qualified by Federal District Court
By: Can Cui In December 2011, a Michigan employer’s motion for summary judgment on a job applicant’s right to privacy claim was denied over questions asked in a routine pre-employment…
New Telecommunications Provider Aims to Enforce Privacy Rights against Government Surveillance through Consumer Autonomy
New Telecommunications Provider Aims to Enforce Privacy Rights against Government Surveillance through Consumer Autonomy By Sofia Rahman CNET reports that the first ISP executive to challenge the government’s demands for…
New York Moves To Protect Health Data Privacy
Emily Millner As New York Builds Its Health Information Exchange, New And Complex Privacy Issues Arise. The move towards implementation of health information exchange (HIE) introduces new concerns regarding…
Genomic Testing and the Affordable Health Care Act
By: Fahd Reyaz Genomic testing is becoming cheaper and companies are able to provide better assessments of risk for complex diseases based on an individual’s genome. As more individual’s purchase…
Scary Description of New Hungarian Secret Police
In Paul Krugman's blog at the NYT, his colleague Kim Lane Scheppele has been periodically writing about the recent radical changes in Hungarian government. Today she wrote about the TEK,…
Online Privacy
Julia Angwin & Jeremy Singer-Vine, Selling You on Facebook, Wall St. J. (Apr. 10, 2012), http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303302504577327744009046230.html. By: Randall Norman Online privacy is a hotly debated topic right now. Some of…
Subpoena, Search, or Incriminating Statement
Subpoena, Search, or Incriminating Statement: Encryption Passphrases and Privacy By Max Abend CNET recently ran an article about a precedential case involving computer encryption. In one of only a handful…