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“The purpose of this hearing is to determine the status of the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II), and the progress made in addressing concerns regarding privacy, due process, accuracy, and the effectiveness of the system.” [Link] The Transportation Security Adminstration’s CAPPS II, by Paul Rosenzweig (Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Center for …
“In a 75-page petition to the Federal Communications Commission, the Justice Department called for Internet broadband and online telephone providers to be required to provide access for wiretaps and other monitoring of voice communications.” [Link]
IBM commissioned a privacy study by the Ponemon Institute, the results of which are detailed in this press release. The “survey of 44 U.S.-based multinational organizations and revealed that while privacy protection is growing in importance for businesses, investments in privacy initiatives are significantly lower when compared to other corporate compliance initiatives, such as environmental …
AP reports that New York and Wisconsin have withdrawn their participation in the Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information EXchange (MATRIX) program. The program now has only five remaining state participants. My other postings on MATRIX. See also A Dual-Edged Sword: Providing Information, Stealing Privacy, “In the case of Matrix and its ilk, our time-honored standards of privacy …
“Parliament adopted by 439 votes in favour, 39 against and 28 abstentions an own-initiative report on the 1995 Data Protection Directive. The House states firmly that transfers of personal data to third country authorities without consent, such as in the case of the US authorities accessing transatlantic passenger data, seriously infringes EU data protection standards. …
The EU’s Article 29 Working Party on data protection has produced a report on “Video Surveillance”. The report sets out guidelines under the 1995 Directive on data protection in relation to surveillance by video cameras in public and work places. [Statewatch News Online] The report states that: “The over-proliferation of image acquisition systems in public …
HIPAA Security Rule: what it is & how to comply with it.
Administration Sets Forth a Limited View on Privacy “In a sharp departure from its past insistence on the sanctity of medical records, the Bush administration has set forth a new, more limited view of privacy rights as it tries to force hospitals and clinics to turn over records of hundreds and perhaps thousands of abortions.” …
On March 3, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) introduced the Children’s Listbroker Privacy Act to ban the oline distribution and sale of personal data on minors. “Commercial list brokers routinely advertise and sell detailed information on children, including names, addresses, ages, and other data, for use in marketing. This data is commonly …
This Washington Post (reg. req’d) article reviews today’s arguments in Ashcroft v. ACLU, No. 03-218. Child Online Protection Act (original statute); amended statute. Brief for Petitioner Brief for Respondents
From the press release issued yesterday by Senator Conrad Burns: “U.S. Senators Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), today introduced legislation (S. 2145) to prohibit spyware, adware, and other invasive software from being secretly installed on Americans’ computers. For the first time, the SPYBLOCK (Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer …
Social Security Numbers: Private Sector Entities Routinely Obtain and Use SSNs, and Laws Limit the Disclosure of This Information. GAO-04-11, January 22. Highlights.
