The FTC's New Security "Mascot"
The FTC announced today that they will unveil a new mascot called Dewie on September 26, at the Privacy2002 conference. Can’t wait!
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New DOJ Guidelines for Intelligence Agency Info Sharing and the PATRIOT Act
Attorney General announces new guidelines to share information between federal law enforcement and the U.S. intelligence community, Septemer 23, 2002. “Today’s guidelines establish procedures for the disclosure to the intelligence community of grand jury and electronic, wire, and oral interception information that identifies a United States person, as defined by federal law.”
Yale Information Society Project
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School (ISP) hosts several resources focused on how the Internet, intellectual property and telecommunications impact our civil liberties. The site posts working papers and information about policy initiatives. In addition, the project sponsors a provocative, insightful, and informative searchable weblog, LawMeme, with commentary on legal-tech issues provided by …
International Organization Reports on Global IP Issues
The Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) an international organization, disbanded with the publication this month of their final report, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy. The group’s interest was strongly focused on developing countries and their access to the services afforded by technology to the world’s prosperous nations. This ZDNet article summarizes the …
The Battle Between the Internet Archive and Scientology
This is a complicated story, an important chronicle of which is published by two recommended sources for which I provide the direct links as follows: journalist Declan McCullagh and the weblog LawMeme (from Yale Law School). The short version is that the Internet Archive has removed all its links to a personal site called Operation …
No Privacy Legislation This Year
ZDNet reports that the clock has run out on the possibility of any new privacy legislation this year. However, consumers are not about to let this issue die on the vine, so legislators will try once again in 2003.
OMB Final Information Quality Guidelines
OMB issued their Final Infomation Quality Guidelines, setting the standards for all federal agencies in terms of the “quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated to the public.” It is notable that the guidelines impact the both the availability and extent of data posted to government web sites.
Public Access to Government Information
OMB Watch is a non-profit advocacy group that has been shining a bright light on the activities of the Office of Management and Budget since 1983. Post 9/11, their work has become more prominent as they track new government guidelines and regulations that restrict public access to data.
State Legislature's Web Site Study
It is unfortunate that this study, “The Politics of State Legislature Web SitesWho Gets Left Out?” is not available online. You can read the press release here. The authors of the study, three professors from Rochester Institute of Technologys College of Liberal Arts evaluated the content available to citizens and journalists who use these sites …
Financial Privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
This testimony by Edmund Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director (U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), from the September 19, 2002 Oversight Hearing On Financial Privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act (GLBA), represented the views of member of the Privacy Coalition. It is a detailed and well annotated chronicle of the Act’s limitations and …
Privacy and Air Travel
Johnson Controls conducted a poll of business class frequent flyers that indicated a willingness to undergo fingerprint identification if the techology would help speed the travel process.
What is the Office of Legal Policy?
This DOJ Factsheet indicates that the Office of Legal Policy will play a major role in Patriot Act related issues of security, privacy and surveillance.
