Thursday, May 9th, 2013
To recap: A privacy and civil liberties oversight board was recommended by the 9/11 Commission, and the board was created in 2004 and placed within the White House. In 2008, Congress passed and President Bush signed the “Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007,” which took the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
CNet reports that President Obama has chosen Nicole Wong, a lawyer for social-networking site Twitter, as chief privacy officer: President Obama has picked Nicole Wong, Twitter’s legal director, to be the White House’s first chief privacy officer, CNET has learned. Wong previously was a vice president and deputy general counsel ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
We’ve discussed before the use of data-mining by the campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney to urge individuals to vote on Election Day and questions about how this affects the privacy of individuals’ personal data. Now, the Washington Post looks into the issue and notes that the Federal Trade Commission, an ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
The Wall Street Journal continues its What They Know series with a look at how secrets are revealed on social-networking site Facebook: AUSTIN, Texas—Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway. One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
The Wall Street Journal continues its What They Know series with a look at how secrets are revealed on social-networking site Facebook: AUSTIN, Texas—Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway. One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
The New York Times has an article about the use of data-mining by the campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney to urge individuals to vote on Election Day. There are questions about the privacy of individuals’ personal data: In the weeks before Election Day, millions of voters will hear ...
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Monday, August 6th, 2012
To recap: A privacy and civil liberties oversight board was recommended by the 9/11 Commission, and the board was created in 2004 and placed within the White House. In 2008, Congress passed and President Bush signed the “Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007,” which took the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2012
The Washington Times reports on a new executive order from President Obama, “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions,” and how it could affect individuals’ use of telecommunications services such as cellphones, wireless and telephone communications: The Obama administration has given the Department of Homeland Security powers to prioritize ...
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Friday, March 30th, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services has published a notice in the Federal Register asking for public comments concerning privacy and access to the Human Genome Sequence data. The comment period ends on May 25, 2012. Here’s more information from the notice: On November 24, 2009, the President established ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade has scheduled a hearing, “Balancing Privacy and Innovation: Does the President’s Proposal Tip the Scale?” The hearing will focus on the Obama administration’s proposal for consumer privacy protections, “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for ...
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Toledo Officials Should Invest in Additional Police Officers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org TOLEDO, OH - The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio blasted a proposal today by the Toledo Police Department to purchase 150 surveillance cameras to monitor residents on city streets and sidewalks. The cost ...
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Saturday, December 17th, 2011
Here’s some background: A privacy and civil liberties oversight board was recommended by the 9/11 Commission, and the board was created in 2004 and placed within the White House. In 2008, Congress passed and President Bush signed the “Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007,” which took the Privacy and Civil ...
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