Category «Privacy»

New GAO Reports: Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq, Presidential Signing Statements, Mineral Revenues, Joint Strike Fighter

Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Actions Needed to Address Inadequate Accountability over U.S. Efforts and Investments, GAO-08-568T, March 11, 2008 Presidential Signing Statements: Agency Implementation of Selected Provisions of Law, GAO-08-553T, March 11, 2008 Mineral Revenues: Data Management Problems and Reliance on Self-Reported Data for Compliance Efforts Put MMS Royalty Collections at Risk, GAO-08-560T, March 11, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation, Privacy

House Democrats Reject Telecom Immunity

House Democratic Majority Leader/AP: “Locked in a standoff with the White House, House Democrats on Tuesday maintained their refusal to shield from civil lawsuits telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on their customers without a secret court’s permission. But they offered the companies an olive branch: the chance to use classified government documents to …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legislation, Privacy

Trio of Commerce Chairmen Call for Further Investigation Based on Latest Domestic Surveillance Allegations

Electronic Frontier Foundation: “Three powerful House Commerce Committee Chairmen strongly urged their colleagues Thursday to defer acting on requests for retroactive immunity and to demand more information from the White House and the telecommunications companies in the wake of disclosures by another whistleblower that the government apparently has been granted an open gateway to customer …

Subjects: Congress, E-Mail, Government Documents, Patriot Act, Privacy, Wireless Web

HHS OIG: Proposed Revisions to Existing Privacy Act Systems of Records: Federal Register Notice

HSS Office of Inspector General Privacy Act of 1974; Revisions to OIGs Privacy Act System of Records: Criminal Investigative Files, Federal Register, March 4, 2008. Action: Notice of proposed revisions to existing Privacy Act systems of records. OIG has reviewed and is now proposing to revise the criminal investigative file system of records by (1) …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, ID Theft, Privacy

CDT Releases Principles for Behavioral Targeting Privacy Tools

“CDT today released a set of privacy principles to help guide the development of software tools related to online behavioral targeting. Developed in consultation with members of CDT’s Internet Privacy Working Group (IPWG), the principles aim to bolster the development of tools for Web browsers and other software that empower users with the ability to …

Subjects: Internet, Privacy

2007 Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance Survey

2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey – Over Half of All Employers Combined Fire Workers for E-Mail & Internet Abuse, February 28, 2008 “From e-mail monitoring and Website blocking to phone tapping and GPS tracking, employers increasingly combine technology with policy to manage productivity and minimize litigation, security, and other risks. To motivate compliance with …

Subjects: E-Mail, Internet, Privacy

Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks (Version 1.0)

Chris Hoofnagle, Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks (Version 1.0) February 26, 2008. Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Law and Technology Scholarship (Selected by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology). Paper 44. “There is no reliable way for consumers, regulators, and businesses to assess the relative incidence of identity fraud at major financial …

Subjects: Cybercrime, ID Theft, Privacy

Data Breach Notification Laws, State By State

Data Breach Notification Laws, State By State, by Scott Berinato, “More than five years after California’s seminal data breach disclosure law, SB 1386, was enacted, not all states have followed suit. Eleven states still have not passed laws mandating that companies notify consumers when that company has lost the consumer’s personal data. One state, Oklahoma, …

Subjects: Cybercrime, ID Theft, Legal Research, Privacy

EU Safer Internet Plus Programme

“The Safer Internet plus programme aims to promote safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, particularly for children, and to fight against illegal content and content unwanted by the end-user, as part of a coherent approach by the European Union.” Make the internet a safer place, February 2008: While the international context is …

Subjects: Cybercrime, EU Data Protection, ID Theft, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

A Legal and Policy Analysis – Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy

The World Privacy Forum – A Legal and Policy Analysis – Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy, Prepared by Robert Gellman for the World Privacy Forum, February 20, 2008 “This document offers a legal and policy analysis of the privacy consequences for consumer health information stored on or by Personal Health Records systems …

Subjects: E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy

Recent CRS Reports: Corporate Mergers, Hate Crime Legislation, FDA Fast Track, Federal Pollution Controls

February 21, 2008 – FDA Fast Track and Priority Review Programs February 20, 2008 – Constitutional Limits on Hate Crime Legislation February 20, 2008 – Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Workers: Current Issues and Legislation February 20, 2008 – Federal Pollution Control Laws: How Are They Enforced? February 20, 2008 – Privacy and Civil Liberties …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legislation, Privacy

Unclassified DNI Data Mining Report Released By Secrecy News

Secrecy News: “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence provided an overview of U.S. intelligence data mining development programs in…Data Mining Report, ODNI Report to Congress, February 15, 2008. Data mining is used by intelligence agencies to search through databases in order to discern patterns of activity that could indicate a threat to national …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Privacy

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