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A new California law, SB 1386, that takes effect July 1, 2003 (highlighted in my previous posting here), reaches beyond the state of California. According to this SecurityFocus article, the ABA Cybersecurity Task Force and industry groups discussed the ramifications of the law that requires businesses maintaining personal data on California citizens to report security …
Yet another post 9/11 related surveillance measure in our near future appears in the January 3, 2003 Federal Register. It is a notice of a proposed rule from the DOJ, Immigration and Naturalization Service, that “requires the submission of arrival and departure manifests electronically in advance of an aircraft or vessel’s arrival in or departure …
According to the Boston Globe, the DMCA will be the focus of increasing controversy and lobbying by industry and consumer advocates in 2003. The Business Software Alliance, one of the act’s powerful backers, is fighting any expansion of consumer rights concerning the use of music and movie industry products, including legislation introduced by Rep. Boucher. …
The Washington Post has a review of PGP 8, the newest version of the secure email messaging software. PGP was formerly a free product, but the company was bought and sold several times, and the new PGP Corp. charges $39 for the personal edition of the software. For some perspective on this program created back …
Washington state and telecom provider Verizon are involved in a lawsuit, in the U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, over the collection and distribution of customer data to third parties for marketing purposes. The state’s position is that customer privacy should prevail over sale of their data, while Verizon is pushing the FCC to …
This San Francisco Chronicle article speculates that Yahoo’s December 23 announcement that the company has acquired search engine Inktomi will likely result in several important ramifications. Yahoo’s tracking and monitoring of its growing population of users will increase, along with associated activities geared toward exponentially increasing the marketing of products and services to already ad-saturated …
Recent news articles point to a growing controvery over proposed surveillance programs to collect and review personal data generated by daily online transactions by citizens. This New York Times article, Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running, concludes that the foundation for much of the work to conduct widespread surveillance has already been …
Negative responses continued to reverberated in the press after the White House announcement last week of plans to expand monitoring of Internet usage. Internet News reports that the White House was busy doing damage control over the privacy issues that are at the heart of The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (draft version), the details …
California is forging ahead with privacy legislation, continuing what has become a pioneering effort to implement consumer protections that include private and public transactions. With Senate Bill 1, the California Financial Information Privacy Act, financial institutions would be required to provide consumers with written opt-in or opt-out privacy forms.
The New York Times reported that the Administration plans to widen the scope of government sponsored monitoring of Internet usage as well as the use of surveillance, to counter possible terrorist threats. Further details of such plans are still under development, and would be included in the early 2003 release of the final version of …
There is evidence of a slow but steady groundswell of citizen concern about, and local government response to, increased online surveillance as a result of the Patriot Act. Wired highlighted the work of a new grassroots organization called the Bill of Rights Defence Committee that is assisting municipalities in the passage of resolutions opposing the …
The Total Information Awareness Office (TIA) and its controversial director Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, (remembered by some for his Reagan era Iran Contra involvement), have begun to feel the heat of growing dissent concerning the activities of this project. Personal data about Poindexter has been posted on numerous weblogs (see this example) and discussed …
