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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School (ISP) hosts several resources focused on how the Internet, intellectual property and telecommunications impact our civil liberties. The site posts working papers and information about policy initiatives. In addition, the project sponsors a provocative, insightful, and informative searchable weblog, LawMeme, with commentary on legal-tech issues provided by …
ZDNet reports that the clock has run out on the possibility of any new privacy legislation this year. However, consumers are not about to let this issue die on the vine, so legislators will try once again in 2003.
This testimony by Edmund Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director (U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), from the September 19, 2002 Oversight Hearing On Financial Privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act (GLBA), represented the views of member of the Privacy Coalition. It is a detailed and well annotated chronicle of the Act’s limitations and …
Johnson Controls conducted a poll of business class frequent flyers that indicated a willingness to undergo fingerprint identification if the techology would help speed the travel process.
This DOJ Factsheet indicates that the Office of Legal Policy will play a major role in Patriot Act related issues of security, privacy and surveillance.
Surveillance, privacy, a secret court, the Constitution and the fight against terrorism are all elements in a public debate in which the legal ramifications of 9-11 continue to impact the lives of Americans. Civil liberties groups including the ACLU, EPIC and the Center for Democracy and Technology, filed an amicus brief on September 19 with …
Bay Total Service Provider (BayTSP does not support a functioning web site. So why should you care about this company? Perhaps because they may well indeed know alot about your Web usage. BayTSP is a heavy-weight contractor whose lucrative services involve enforcement of the Digital Millennium Act on behalf of private corporations as well as …
Unlikely adversaries, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Verizon Internet Services Inc. are tangled in a controversy over alleged music piracy. The RIAA is seeking to enforce a subpoena issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to ascertain the identity of a Verizon customer has allegedly committed copyright infringement …
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency that was created in the wake of 9-11 (Public Law 107-71), to quote President Bush, to “give all Americans greater confidence when they fly.” On July 19, 2002 there was a hearing on the status of the work of this agency, and among the topics discussed were …
A recent Watchfire survey indicates that the use and administration of privacy policies on corporate sites is a requirement, not an option. This press release by Watchfire’s President and COO is a focuses on legislative compliance and industry best practices.
S.B. 1614 would preclude the sale or distribution on the Internet of birth and death records created and maintained by state agencies.
Various flavors of privacy legislation are before state and federal legislators, no doubt spurred on by the PATRIOT Act. Awaiting a vote by the House this month is H.R. 4561 which would “require that (federal) agencies, in promulgating rules, take into consideration the impact of such rules on the privacy of individuals.”
