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“EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Trade Commission for the Privacy Report that Google was recently required to submit to the agency. The Commission had previously investigated Google after EPIC filed a complaint regarding Google’s Buzz product, which transformed private user contacts into publicly available social network data. Last …
“DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is a technical specification created by a group of organizations that want to help reduce the potential for email-based abuse by solving a couple of long-standing operational, deployment, and reporting issues related to email authentication protocols. DMARC standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using …
EFF: “This January 28 marks International Privacy Day. Different countries around the world are celebrating this day with their own events. This year, we are honoring the day by calling attention to recent international privacy threats and interviewing data protection authorities, government officials, and activists to gain insight into various aspects of privacy rights and …
“In honor of Data Privacy Day, the full ebook of lol…OMG! (regularly $9.99) is being made available for FREE!” “What if every mistake you ever made in college was captured and shared with everyone you know, and then with thousands of strangers every day for the rest of your life? Matt Ivester, creator of the …
“One policy, one Google experience – Were getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one thats a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google.” See this FAQ and …
News release: The European Commission has today [January 24, 2012] a comprehensive reform of the EU’s 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe’s digital economy. Technological progress and globalisation have profoundly changed the way our data is collected, accessed and used. In addition, the 27 EU Member States have implemented …
ACLU: “Yesterday evening, Google announced a new privacy policy effective March 1. The new policy is consistent across the vast majority of Google products…the new privacy policy makes clear that Google will, for the first time, combine the personal data you share with any one of its products or sites across almost all of its …
Report from the Internet Privacy Workshop – Internet Architecture Board (IAB) – via CDT: “The workshop report provides a useful overview of fundamental privacy design challenges that appear again and again: the increasing ease of user/device/application fingerprinting, unforeseen information leakage, difficulties in distinguishing first parties from third parties, complications arising from system dependencies, and the …
“Today the Supreme Court unanimously held in U.S. v. Jones that the warrantless use of a GPS tracking device by the police violated the Fourth Amendment. The Court said that a warrant is required “[w]here, as here, the government obtains information by physically intruding on a constitutionally protected area,” like a car. Concurring opinions by …
“Googles Good to Know campaign aims to help people stay safe on the Internet and manage the information they share online. The website and ads provide easy to use tips and advice on online security, help on understanding the data users share and tools they can use to manage their data. Written in clear language …
Arctic Capabilities – DOD Addressed Many Specified Reporting Elements in Its 2011 Arctic Report but Should Take Steps to Meet Near- and Long-term Needs, GAO-12-180, January 13, 2011 Defense Contracting – Improved Policies and Tools Could Help Increase Competition on DOD’s National Security Exception Procurements, GAO-12-263, January 13, 2011 Health Care Quality Measurement – HHS …
“As the result of EPIC v. DHS, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, EPIC has obtained nearly thee hundred pages of documents detailing a Department of Homeland Security’s surveillance program. The documents include contracts and statements of work with General Dynamics for 24/7 media and social network monitoring and periodic reports to DHS. The documents …
