Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
...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…
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…
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…
See Catherine Crump (ACLU and PRG member) quoted in this article about employers and prospective employers asking for access to Facebook accounts: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/tech/social-media/facebook-password-employers/index.html
Hannah Bloch-Wehba US continues to receive wholesale financial data from EU banking org. without a warrant The Europol Joint Supervisory Body (JSB) recently released a report confirming that the U.S. continues to…
Patrick McCarthy Supreme Court Ruling Prompts FBI to Turn Off 3,000 Tracking Devices The Federal Bureau of Investigation is scrambling to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent decision…
Just in case anyone had trouble making the argument that our cell phones are actually personally identifying despite our ability to leave them at home, it looks like we might…
Christian Oronsaye Privacy Rights Groups Fight FAA on Use of Drones in U.S. Reports have it that some privacy advocacy groups have petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in connection…
Christian Oronsaye Supreme Court Justices say GPS tracker violated privacy rights The United States Supreme Court on Monday (01/23/2012) unanimously ruled that the police violated the Constitution when they placed…
Christopher Poole Private Sector Brushes Up Against EU’s “Right to be Forgotten” In January of this year the European Commission unveiled a series of proposed reforms to the…