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This National Law Journal article, Fretting over U.S. data collection, reviews data privacy concerns associated with the work of the Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA) program in light of the release on May 20 of the agency’s report to Congress.
California Assembly Bill 578, the Electronic Recording Delivery System Act of 2003, would “authorize a county recorder, upon approval by resolution of the board of supervisors and system certification by the Attorney General, to establish an electronic recording delivery system for the delivery and recording of digitized electronic records affecting the right, title, or interest …
Gearing Up For July 1, 2003 – Senate Bill 1386 – How Does It Affect You?. “On July 1, 2003, Senate Bill 1386 becomes Civil Code 1798.82. In a nutshell, the law states that any person or company doing business in the state of California is responsible for notifying California residents of security breaches to …
Via Declan McCullagh’s Wired article, this link to documents in American Library Association Inc. v. U.S., Civil Actions 2001-1303 and 2001-1322, Three-Judge Court Internet Case, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (note the Memorandum and Order is 195 pages.) “The court permanently barred the Federal Communications Commission from cutting off funds to libraries that …
S.1158, A bill to exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of tangible things for foreign intelligence investigations, and to exempt libraries from counterintelligence access to certain records, ensuring that libraries and bookstores are subjected to the regular system of court-ordered warrants, was introduced on May 23 by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
From the Center for Democracy and Technology, this analysis, Privacy’s Gap: The Largely Non-Existent Legal Framework for Government Mining of Commercial Data, [pdf] May 28, 2003. Quoting from the report, “The government has argued that it should have the same access to consumer data that the private sector has, but in fact it seeks access …
Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists maintains an extensive resource on Bush Administration Documents on Secrecy Policy. Included are links to: Presidential Documents, Related White House Press Briefings, and Other Official Documents on Bush Administration Secrecy Policy.
SFGate.com reported on public protests against the Patriot Act by Palo Alto librarians. In addition to the librarians, the article states that the “police chief is supporting a resolution before the Cicty Council next week that would prohibit her department from aiding the FBI in Patriot Act searches, interviews or surveillance without evidence that a …
In Search Privacy: An Issue?, Part 2, Danny Sullivan evaluates the privacy policies and associated data mining applications of Yahoo and Google. Part 1 of this article is here.
According to the Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002, the kids.us domain will be a “haven for material that promotes positive experiences for children and families using the Internet.” This task poses significant challenges to those who plan to publish and maintain “G” rated-only content beginning this September. Related posting: President Signs Kids …
From FAS, an excerpt from H.R. 1588, the National Defense Authorization for Fiscal Year 2004 as reported in the House (House Report 108-106, Part 1 and Part 2 (*note, these are very long documents), on the Expansion of the Defense Counterintelligence Polygraph Program.
PCWorld has an important article on the implications of and serious ramifications that result when powerful encryption technologies used to protect individual privacy are also exploited in increasingly sophisticated ways by groups planning terrorist acts.
