Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
From SANS Newsbites 14(82): --Senator Rockefeller Seeks Information About Data Brokers' Business Practices (October 10, 2012) US Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) has sent letters to nine data brokerage companies,…
I received a notice about this journal issue: http://idpl.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/4.toc?etoc I'm not sure why I received it, exactly, but it scanning the articles, many of them look quite interesting. It's particularly…
http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/cels2012/ This year's CELS conference will be at Stanford in november. The program is now available at http://www.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/event/265957/media/slspublic/PreliminarySchedule.pdf. Lots of good stuff there!
Here's an interesting story, public action, and settlement about a company secretly spying on users from their rental computers.From: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/09/designware.shtm "Seven rent-to-own companies and a software design firm have agreed…
In response to congressional requests, the GAO produced a new report on medical device security (http://www.gao.gov/assets/650/647767.pdf). Unlike agencies like NIST, the GAO provided a number of specific recommendations for the…
http://www.markleweeklydigest.org/2012/09/eu-and-us-eye-privacy-in-parallel.html The article linked above adds to the comparative discussion between EU and US privacy regimes. In every conversation I can recall, Americans consider both the European and Canadian models…
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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…
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 By Sofia Rahman CNET reports that the first ISP executive to challenge the government’s demands for…