Mobile Geolocation Services, EU
EU’s Article 29 Working Party adopted opinion regarding mobile geolocation services and required e.g. a prior informed consent from users. Yet The European Commission’s proposed reform of the EU's 1995…
Senator Franken’s Comment to NTIA Focuses on Location Privacy
Senator Franken’s Comment to NTIA Focuses on Location Privacy Page Hubben On April 2, Senator Al Franken, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law,…
Reminder: NYU/Princeton Conference on Mobile and Location Privacy, April 13
NYU/Princeton Conference on Mobile and Location Privacy: A Technology and Policy Dialog Date: Friday, April 13, 2012 Time: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Lipton Hall, 108 West 3rd Street…
Concerns over Government Access to and Retention of Communications and Other Data
Several recent NY Times articles reflect growing concerns over increasing government access to and retention of communications and other data here in the U.S.: Police Are Using Phone Tracking…
Does your level of Fourth Amendment protection vary inversely with the convenience of your digital life?
Does your level of Fourth Amendment protection vary inversely with the convenience of your digital life? Matthew Smith Today, Ars Technica published an excellent rundown of the various approaches that…
“Can You Track Me Now?…Good.” Do Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data?
Kevin Frick “Can You Track Me Now?...Good.” Do Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data? Last week, the question of whether law enforcement officials required to get a…
Rubinstein & Hirsch Comments to Department of Commerce RFC on Data Privacy Codes of Conduct
From Prof. Rubinstein... BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION Docket No. 120214135-2135-01 Multistakeholder Process To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Codes of Conduct Request for Comments ________________________________________________________________________…
The National Counterterrorism Center Just Declared All of Us Domestic Terrorists…
...or so says Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel.net: "NCTC turning NCTC’s authority to sometimes get domestic terrorism information into authority to get any dataset maintained by any executive agency that NCTC…
NYT – Justices Rule Against Pilot in Privacy Case
Not a great outcome... "The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a private pilot whose H.I.V.-positive status was improperly shared between government agencies cannot collect damages for the emotional distress…
9th Circuit: ECPA protects domestic communications of non-US citizens
Mu-Chia Kao 9th Circuit: ECPA protects domestic communications of non-US citizens In Suzlon Energy Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit uphold a…