Friday, May 17th, 2013
In a series about cyber compliance issues, the Wall Street Journal takes a look at how collecting enormous amounts of data, without securing the private or sensitive information, can lead to large problems when there are security breaches: It’s well-known that many companies aren’t aware when they have had their ...
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
MediaPost reports on a privacy lawsuit by Android users against Google, the operating system’s creator: A group of Android users who are suing Google for allegedly violating their privacy have beefed up their complaint with new claims that the company wrongly transfers users’ names and contact information information to app ...
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Monday, May 13th, 2013
The Associated Press announced that the Department of Justice secretly obtained two months’ worth of phone records of its journalists, and the news service wants to know the reason for this surveillance, which could have significant implications for First Amendment civil rights: The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of ...
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
The Washington Post’s Navigator column discusses ways that individuals can protect themselves from identity theft when they’re traveling: One of the latest threats against travelers is invisible and silent: wireless attacks that siphon your credit card number, personal information and passwords. Anything with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip, including your ...
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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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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Mary Leary, an associate professor at the Catholic University law school, has published a draft of her forthcoming law review article, “Katz on a Hot Tin Roof – Saving the Fourth Amendment from Commercial Conditioning by Reviving Voluntariness in Disclosures to Third Parties,” concerning individuals’ privacy rights. Here’s the abstract: In ...
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
The Federation of American Scientists has posted a new Congressional Research Service report (FAS pdf; archive pdf) concerning the FBI and its terrorism investigations since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks and how the FBI’s investigations affect individuals’ privacy and civil liberty rights. The CRS says, “Since 9/11, the Bureau has arguably ...
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
Postmedia reports that the Canadian government has had privacy and security breaches of its data thousands of times in the past 10 years: OTTAWA — The federal government has seen more than 3,000 data and privacy breaches over the past 10 years, breaches that have affected more than 725,350 Canadians, ...
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Friday, April 26th, 2013
To recap: In the last year, there has been increasing focus on the practice by some employers of requiring job applicants to hand over their passwords or allow access to their private accounts on social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Google+ in order to gather personal data when the social-networking profiles are closed to ...
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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Consumer Reports is hosting a panel discussion, “Consumer Trade-offs in a Mobile Culture: Privacy, Payments and Social Media,” on May 1 in New York City. Here’s more information: Join Consumer Reports for an in-depth discussion about mobile technology and the ways that it has fundamentally changed our culture. A panel ...
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
NPR looks at a new book from Google executive Eric Schmidt, which includes a discussion of privacy and technology, and interviews him and his co-author about the issues: Imagine a world with machines that wash, press and dress you on the way to work and vacations via hologram visits to ...
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