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The Virginia House yesterday passed and adopted HB 2426 – Posting certain information on the Internet; prohibitions, in response to growing public concerns about privacy and ID theft. The bill “provides that beginning July 1, 2003, no state agency or court clerk shall post on a state agency or court-controlled website any document that contains …
Minnesota’s pioneering Internet privacy legislation, S.F. No. 2908, that regulates spam, protects the privacy of Internet consumers and regulates the dissemination of personal data about Internet users, is under attack just as it is scheduled to take effect March 1. AOL and other industry groups are seeking to introduce new legislation to “limit the responsibility …
Please be advised that the new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security standards is a very long PDF document (289 pages). It is the text of the “final Rule adopting HIPAA standards for the security of electronic protected health information to be implemented by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care …
From Google Village, this posting, Google, Privacy, Blogs and Alternatives to Search, continues the thread of discussion on growing concerns about powerhouse search engine Google’s approach to privacy issues that some liken to long standing complaints about Microsoft’s products and services.
SB 1, the California Financial Information Privacy Act, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 18. The bill would require that financial institutions allow customers to exercise the choice of “opting-in” or “opting-out” to determine whether their personal data is shared with affiliated groups, as well as sold to third parties.
Professor Anita Ramasastry of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle has published a commentary worth review, Patriot II: The Sequel Why It’s Even Scarier than the First Patriot Act. See my previous postings here and here on this controversial draft legislation that was leaked even before it was made available to members …
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) issued a press release warning job seekers about privacy issues related to posting their resumes online. Personal data from online resumes can be mined, including phone numbers and email addresses, then compiled, aggregated and sold without the author’s permission or knowledge. This is according to a study undertaken by researcher …
The ACLU, on behalf of a group of civil liberties organizations and several Arab-American organizations, filed an appeal (PDF) with the Supreme Court on February 18 in re: The Sealed Case of the Foreign Intelligence Court of Review (FISA) (PDF) decided November 18, 2002. This controversial decision, the first in the history of FISA, gave …
Via EPIC, this February 18, 2003 decision from the Supreme Court of New Hampshire determines liability in a case that involved the use of an information broker, ID theft and pretexting that resulted in the murder of 19 year old Amy Lynn Boyer in 1999.
The Federal Communications Commission issued a press release on February 14 authorizing the deployment of ultra-wide band technology (UWB). See this San Diego Union Tribune article, Federal regulators ease restrictions on technology that can see through walls, for more details.
On Feburary 13, Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) introduced a bill that would lead to the establishment of a Homeland Intelligence Agency, “to replace FBI units that failed to uncover the September 11 terrorists and still cannot find suspected al Qaeda operatives in the United States.” A fact sheet on the bill is here, and the …
This ACLU press release contends that the recently released draft of what has been dubbed Patriot II, tentatively titled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, will erode basic constitutional civil liberties. Also see this OMB Watch analysis of how the Patriot II legislation will impact the public’s right to know.
