Backup Tapes With Personal Data on More Than Half Million Employees…Lost?
Information on 600,000 current, former Time Warner workers missing
Category «Privacy»
Groups Respond to Attacks on Public Libraries During PATRIOT Act Hearings
As a follow-up to my April 28, 2005 posting on PATRIOT Act hearings in which U.S. Attorney (DC) Kenneth L. Wainstein testified that 9/11 hijackers used public libraries, the following relevant information: ACLU and Librarians Decry Patriot Act Library Testimony Patriot Act’s Library Provisions Examined in Congressional Hearings Protect the records of what we read, …
Tri-Partisan Patriot Act Reform Caucus Formed
Press release: “U.S. Representative Tom Udall, D-N.M., Thursday became a founding member of the tri-partisan Patriot Act Reform Caucus. Passed weeks after the September 11 attacks, the sweeping anti-terrorism law has increasingly come under criticism from the left and the right. The law included 16 provisions that expire at the end of 2005. Other members …
2004 Wiretap Report
From the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, April 28, 2005: 2004 Wiretap Report (For the Period January 1 Through December 31, 2004) Press release: “A total of 1,710 applications for wiretaps of wire, oral or electronic communications were authorized by federal and state judges in 2004, an increase of 19 percent over 2003.”
Do Data Aggregators Have a Duty to Protect Consumers?
Prepared Remarks of Jim Harper, Editor of Privacilla.org, to the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference Panel Entitled The Economics of Privacy: Market or Regulation? – April 15, 2005.
NY AG Sues Net Marketer For Installing Spyware on Millions of PCs
Press release: “Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today sued one of the nation’s leading internet marketing companies, alleging that the firm was the source of “spyware” and “adware” that has been secretly installed on millions of home computers. The suit against Los Angeles-based Intermix Media, Inc. is the most sweeping case to date involving programs that …
Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security – Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Sections of the Act that Address–Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). (Part 1) Section 204: Clarification of Intelligence Exceptions from Limitations on Interception & Disclosure of Wire, Oral & Electronic Communications; Section 207: Duration of FISA Surveillance of …
Reviews of Norton’s New Antispyware Beta
First Look: Symantec’s So-So Spyware Protection CNET editor’s take, Norton Internet Security 2005 Antispyware Edition (beta)
FTC Seeks Comments on COPPA
Press release: FTC Seeks Comment on Children’s Online Privacy Rule – “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on its implementation of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) through the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Rule. The FTC also is seeking additional comment on the COPPA Rules sliding scale approach to obtaining parental consent, …
Google’s New “My Search History” Worries Privacy Advocates
Google Personal-Search Tracker Raises Privacy Concerns My Search History (Beta) My Search History (Beta) Help Search and My History Shall Find (InternetNews.com)
Senate Intelligence Cmte. Hearing on PATRIOT Act
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Hearing on the USA PATRIOT Act, April 19, 2005. Links to testimony.
Vendor of Background Check Data Now Notifies Targets of Probe
According to Wired, the instant criminal background check database owned by ChoicePoint called Rapsheets is now in compliance with Fair Credit Reporting Act requirements to provide individuals with notification regarding the review of their data by prospective employers.
