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This Boston Globe Magazine article focuses on the ability of Google’s search technology to link researchers to extensive personal data on individuals who have no reasonable expectation of such data remaining private. Googling someone has become routine for many searchers, and the more thorough the research, the greater the potential to locate and disseminate personal …
Via Politechbot, Ohio State Law Professor Peter P. Swire, former Chief Counselor for Privacy to President Clinton, filed a declaration in Verizon v. Recording Industry Association of America supporting Verizon’s motion to stay the decision.
Here is a follow-up to a January 30 New York Times article on the State Department’s new database of 50 million visa applications to which federal and local law enforcement agencies will have access. This database is part of the Homeland Security initiative. As part of the compliance requirements, colleges and universities must report on …
The European Commission on Data Protection Working Party issued a new directive on January 29 addressing the protection of personal online data and the enforcement of IP rights. The Working Document, On-line Authentication Services, is here.
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against the Educational Research Center of America, Inc. stating the company had “collected personal information from high school and middle and junior high school students through surveys,” and used this data “to create lists of students that it sells to commercial entities for use in marketing.” A copy …
Verizon is appealing the district court’s decision compelling the ISP to release customer data to RIAA in a copyright dispute concerning music downloading. According to Verizon’s deputy general counsel, “If this ruling stands, consumers will be caught in a digital dragnet – not only from record companies alleging infringement of their copyright monopolies – but …
The Colorado House Committee on Technology and Information has introduced a new bill, HB 03-1200, to amend the Junk E-Mail Law to include a no-solicitation list similar to the telemarketing no-call list. The full-text of the Colorado Statute is here.
The Washington Post reports that since the 9/11 attacks the administration has been developing a Global Early Warning Information System (GEWIS) to secure the global telecommunications infrastructure from cyberattacks. This program is not part of TIA, but rather is administered by The National Communications System (NCS), which will become part of the Department of Homeland …
The UCLA Center for Communication Policy today released the third installment of their report, Surveying the Digital Future. The report addresses topics that include the following; Internet Users – Who is Online, Who is Not; Media Use and Trust; Consumer Behavior, Communications Patterns, Social Effects of the Internet (on family, children, friends, politics); the Internet …
President Bush announced during his State of the Union address the implementation of a new government data-mining program called the Terrorist Threat Integration Center. From his speech, “Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, the CIA, the Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge …
Only a partial text is available to non-subscribers, but here is a link to a new Salon article, Total Information Awareness: Down, but not out, that contends Congressional efforts to limit the program may be a case of too little too late. “The federal government is unlikely to stop doing research into how to glean …
According to this report from Statewatch, telecommunicatons surveillance conducted by the government is documented to have reached record levels throughout the UK.
