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“EPIC has filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit urging the court to affirm legal protections for users of home Wi-Fi networks. In Joffe v. Google, the plaintiffs sued Google for the interception and capture of private communications transferred over residential Wi-Fi networks. Google argued that it should be exempt from liability under the …
News release: “In response to charges by the Federal Trade Commission, a federal judge has ordered the defendants behind a deceptive robocall scheme to pay a total of $30 million in civil penalties and give up more than $1.1 million in ill-gotten gains for violations of the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule. The …
“Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz released the agencys 2012 Annual Highlights today at the spring meeting of the American Bar Associations Section of Antitrust Law in Washington, DC, recognizing the agencys continued efforts to protect consumers and promote competition. The Highlights, published in an online format for the first time this year, focus on …
Social Networking Risks Outlined in Latest Counterintelligence Brochure, March 2012 “Internet-based social networking sites have created a revolution in social connectivity. However, con artists, criminals, and other dishonest actors are exploiting this capability for nefarious purposes. So warns our Counterintelligence Division in its latest informative brochure, Internet Social Networking Risks, which not only depicts the …
HHS, March 22, 2012 – “The National Quality Strategy sets three aims for improving health care in our country: better care, affordable care, and healthy people and communities. Information that is accurate, up to date, and available when and where a patient seeks care is the lifeblood of health care improvement and crucial to reaching …
House of Lords – House of Commons – Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions Privacy and injunctions, Session 201012 – Report, together with formal minutes, minutes of evidence and appendices Ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 12 March 2012 “A strong, free and vibrant press is essential …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s chief privacy policy and enforcement agency, issued a final report setting forth best practices for businesses to protect the privacy of American consumers and give them greater control over the collection and use of their personal data. In the report, Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of …
Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office, First Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Report to Congress “The PIA [Privacy Impact Assessments] process is one of the key mechanisms used to assure that the Departments use of technologies sustains, and does not erode, privacy protections relating to the use, collection, and disclosure of PII. As of November 30, …
Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data, March 22, 2012 “As the digitization of health records makes it easier and more cost effective to share and analyze health data, policymakers and businesses are increasingly looking to use health data for secondary purposes uses beyond that for which the health data were originally collected. For example, …
EPIC: Under revised guidelines [unclassified] for the National Counterterrorism Center, the intelligence agency officials will be able to profile and track American citizens, suspected of no crime, for up to five years. The change represents a dramatic expansion of government surveillance and appears to violate the Privacy Act of 1974, which limits data exchanges across …
“Between December 1, 2011 and February 29, 2012 the Chief Privacy Officer of the DHS approved and published eleven Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) on the DHS Privacy Office Web site, under the link for Privacy Impact Assessments. These PIAs cover eleven separate DHS programs. Below is a short summary of those programs, indicating the DHS …
Follow up to New ‘HTTPS Everywhere’ Version Warns Users About Web Security Holes see the following from privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian – Firefox switching to HTTPS Google search by default (and the end of referrer leakage). “A few days ago, Mozilla’s developers quietly enabled Google’s HTTPS encrypted search as the default search service for the …
