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This April 11 article, North Dakota Legislature Agrees on ‘black boxes’ Bill discusses SB 2200, which provides consumer privacy protections related to recording devices on motor vehicles by stipulating procedures related to the collection and dissemination of data on vehicle location, speed, braking, seat belt status, and accident related information. Related news and references: North …
The San Jose Medical Group reported the theft, from their facility, of two Dell PCs to which confidential data on 185,000 patients had been copied from the organization’s servers.
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (as required by Section 1001(3) of Public Law 107-56), March 2005, Office of the Inspector General. “Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Patriot Act), Public Law 107-56, directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Justice …
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “Securing Electronic Personal Data: Striking a Balance Between Privacy and Commercial and Governmental Use,” April 13, 2005 Links to the text of available testimony (from ChoicePoint, Acxiom, as well as the FTC, CDT, PrivacyToday.com) and member statements. [Note: the text of testimony by LexisNexis is not currently online] Related news: Data …
Press release: Attorney General Lockyer Goes to Court to Shut Down Major California-Based Spam Operation – Action Comes In First-Ever Enforcement Collaboration With Federal Trade Commission, April 13, 2005. “Attorney General Bill Lockyer today will ask a federal court to shut down a major California-based spam operation that has bombarded people across the country with …
From the Intermix Media, Inc. SEC Filing 8-K, April 12, 2005: “The Company has recently been advised by the Internet Bureau of the Office of the New York Attorney General (the “NY AG“) that it is considering commencing an action against the Company for unlawful and deceptive acts and practices associated with distribution of toolbar, …
S. 751, A bill to require federal agencies, and persons engaged in interstate commerce, in possession of data containing personal information, to disclose any unauthorized acquisition of such information, introduced April 11, 2005. Press release from Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California: “Just yesterday, I introduced a stronger version of legislation that would help people to …
Press release, April 12: Recent Examples of Egregious Loopholes That Are Compromising Personal Information Need Immediate and Thorough Action by Congress – Schumer-Nelson Bill Would Empower FTC, Inform Consumer to Prevent ID Theft in Future, Not Just Punish Wrongdoers after the Fact “On the heels of numerous and significant identity theft breaches, U.S. Senators Charles …
The Promise of Internet Intermediary Liability, by Ronald J. Mann and Seth R. Belzley, William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 47, October 2005. “This Essay starts from the realist assumption that government regulation of the internet is inevitable. Thus, instead of focusing on the naïve question of whether the internet should be regulated, it discusses …
THE 2005 JEFFERSON MUZZLES ARE HERE! – “For 14 years the Thomas Jefferson Center has celebrated the April birth date of our namesake by awarding the Jefferson Muzzles to those who in the past year forgot Mr. Jefferson’s admonition that freedom of speech cannot be limited without being lost. Who committed some of the more …
Law Library Subscriptions: Paper or Electronic?, by Lucy Rieger, New Jersey Law Journal, April 12, 2005.
From EFF, Bloggers Speak Up in Apple Case: “Groups working to protect journalists’ press freedoms, the creator of a blog-search tool, weblog publishers, and more than a dozen individual online journalist/bloggers filed a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) [April 11] in Apple v. Does — the case in which Apple Computer is seeking to unmask online journalists’ …
