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You know what? I’d like to learn what’s being collected about me, too.

Sasha_Romanosky October 12, 2012 5:25 pm 0Comments

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,…

Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data 2(4), 2012

Sasha_Romanosky October 10, 2012 10:13 pm 0Comments

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…

CELS, Nov 9-10, at Stanford

Sasha_Romanosky October 4, 2012 1:53 pm 0Comments

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!

Secretly Installed Software on Rented Computers Collected Information, Took Pictures of Consumers in Their Homes, Tracked Consumers’ Locations

Sasha_Romanosky September 29, 2012 9:48 pm 1Comments

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…

New GAO report on medical device security

Sasha_Romanosky September 29, 2012 9:42 pm 0Comments

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…

Do Fair Information Practices (FIPs) really create better outcomes?

Sasha_Romanosky September 22, 2012 5:38 pm 0Comments

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…

Roger Ford: White Paper on Mobile Privacy

Luke Stark September 18, 2012 3:26 pm 0Comments

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Google negotiating with FTC over Safari cookie bypass

Roger Ford May 7, 2012 12:13 pm 0Comments

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

DCherubin April 26, 2012 1:38 pm 0Comments

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

DCherubin April 23, 2012 4:12 pm 0Comments

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…

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