DNI Information Sharing Environment Privacy Guidelines Released
Press release: DNI Information Sharing Environment Privacy Guidelines Privacy Guidelines (9 pages, PDF)
Category «Privacy»
Federal Technology Source Online
“The Federal Technology Source includes contact information for more than 3,000 of the most influential people in the federal information technology arena, including chief information officers, knowledge managers, and security and privacy officers. The directory also includes information on key political officials and their IT staffs, as well as trade associations, research firms and vendors. …
Coalition Urges Court to Give E-mail Full Constitutional Protection
November 27, 2006 statement: “Last week, CDT and the ACLU joined a friend-of-the-court brief written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging a federal appeals court to extend to e-mail the same constitutional protection accorded to telephone calls and regular mail. Remarkably, the constitutional status of e-mail has never been decided, and the Justice Department claims …
DOJ IG Launches Investigation Into Info Gathered Via Domestic Surveillance Program
Press release: “Following requests for an investigation of the National Security Agencys (NSA) warrantless surveillance program from Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), and other House members, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Glenn A. Fine today informed Lofgren and Hinchey that his office has opened a program review of the agency’s involvement …
Processing of Personal Data By SWIFTand EU Data Protection Opinion
Follow-up to previous postings on the SWIFT online financial cooperative network, this November 23, 2006 corporate press release: “SWIFT strongly objects to WP 29’s opinion [Opinion 10/2006 on the processing of personal data by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), 11/26/2006 WP 128] about the communication of personal data to the US Treasury …
Presentations Available from FTC Public Hearings on Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade
Federal Trade Commission Public Hearings on Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade, November 6 – 8, 2006. Links to presentations (in formats that include html, PDF, and video), on the following topics: Key Changes Predicted in the Next Tech-ade; The Changing Internet; How Will We Communicate in the Next Tech-ade?; Social Networking – Trends and …
Judge Denies Group's FOIA Request for Access to Domestic Surveillance Documents
Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled that the NSA wiretapping documents are classified and not subject to FOIA.
DHS Privacy Office Annual Report to Congress Released After One Year Delay
EPIC: “The Department of Homeland Security finally released the Privacy Office Annual Report, July 2004 July 2006 (38 pages, PDF) to Congress. The Department is required by law to provide the report each year “on activities of the Department that affect privacy, including complaints of privacy violations, implementation of the Privacy Act of 1974, …
Spamhaus List of World's Top 10 Spammers
“Up to 80% of spam targetted at Internet users in North America and Europe is generated by a hard-core group of around 200 known professional spam gangs whose names, aliases and operations are documented in Spamhaus’ Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database. This TOP 10 chart of ROKSO-listed spammers is based on those Spamhaus …
Group Urges Appeals Court to Affirm Landmark Decision Striking Down Warrantless NSA Spying
Following up in general on postings related to the administration’s domestic surveillance program, and specifically on, Federal Judge Rules NSA Domestic Surveillance Program Unconstitutional, this news today: “The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan today urged a federal appeals court (6th Circuit, Cincinnati, Ohio) to uphold a lower court ruling declaring the …
DOJ Releases Expert's Report On Google Child Online Protection Act Case
Follow-up to previous postings related to the DOJ’s subpoena early this year, to obtain Google search data, news via Seth Finkelstein, posted copies of the following reports (PDF) released today: Main Report of Philip B. Stark, Ph.D, 8 May 2006, Redacted, ACLU v. Gonzales, Civ. Action No. 98-5591 Supplement: Rebuttal Expert Report and rule 26(e) …
Court Shuts Down Media Motor Spyware Operation
Press release: “A U.S. district court has shut down an operation that secretly downloaded multiple malevolent software programs, including spyware, onto millions of computers without consumers consent, degrading their computers’ performance, spying on them, and exposing them to a barrage of disruptive advertisements. The Federal Trade Commission has asked the court to order a permanent …
