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“CDT will testify (text of statement submitted by CDT Exec. Director, 17 pages, PDF) April 13 before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the privacy and security issues raised by recent losses of personal information by data brokers and others. CDT will call for a stronger policy framework, requiring notice of breach, security safeguards, limits on …
In States Scramble To Protect Data – Dozens of Privacy Bills Introduced After Spate of Security Breaches, the Washington Post reports that privacy legislation is under consideration in 28 states. However, industry support for a carefully crafted response on the federal level presents serious challenges to the future of these bills.
CDT has made available a PDF version, 70 pages, of the DOJ’s April 2005 report, USA PATRIOT Act Sunsets Report. “The report, which was prepared at the request of Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, analyzes each of the 16 provisions that are scheduled to expire on December 31, 2005. See also Patriot Debates – A …
A Model Regime of Privacy Protection (Version 2.0), by Daniel J. Solove and Chris Jay Hoofnagle, April 5, 2005. GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 136.
From the current issue of Managing Technology (Wharton School): Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? Personal Data Theft Eludes Easy Remedies
Several articles today raise questions about the extent to which the government has obtained access to library patron records, as indicated in testimony from yesterday’s hearing concerning the reauthorization of the law’s 16 provisions which are scheduled to expire at the end of 2005. Links are as follows: From the Christian Science Monitor, Patriot Act: …
2005 Montana Legislature, Senate Joint Resolution No. 19:…that it is the policy of the citizens of Montana to oppose any portion of the USA PATRIOT Act that violates the rights and liberties guaranteed under the Montana Constitution or the United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.
Summary: H.R. 418 would authorize the appropriation of such sums as necessary for fiscal years 2005 through 2009 for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to make grants to states to cover the costs of improving the security of driver’s licenses as required by the bill. The legislation also would make changes to current immigration …
Press release: “U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today announced the introduction of legislation to prohibit a variety of surreptitious practices that result in spyware, adware and other unwanted software being placed on consumers computers. The bipartisan SPYBLOCK (Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer Knowledge) Act, introduced with Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), would prohibit the …
Released today by the GAO: Telecommunications: Greater Involvement Needed by FCC in the Management and Oversight of the E-Rate Program. GAO-05-151, February 9. Highlights. See also GAO Report: E-rate Mismanagement Continues Unabated – Barton to Accelerate Legislative Plans in Light of Findings
The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved, by 43-0 vote, the Antispyware bill, H.R. 29, The Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act or the ‘SPY ACT’. An Amendment #1, offered by Mr. Stearns, was agreed to by voice vote.
Over the past two days, significant primary and secondary information associated with the ChoicePoint ID theft scam has become available. Please see the following sources, which appear in chronological order: SEC probing ChoicePoint stock sales Rep. Markey Press Conference Statement Introducing the “Information Protection and Security Act” (S. 500 and H.R. 1080): “In the emerging …
