Edward Wyatt and Tanzina Vega report: … In the next few weeks, both the Federal Trade Commission and the Commerce Department are planning to release independent, and possibly conflicting, reports about online privacy. Top Commerce officials have indicated that the department favors letting the industry regulate itself, building on the common practice of user agreements…
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California Approves Amendments to Privacy Regulations
In what’s being called “a major victory for insurance agents and brokers,” the California Office of Administrative Law has approved Department of Insurance plans to repeal certain portions of its privacy regulations. The CDI filed with OAL on Sept. 22, 2010, a “change without regulatory effect,” arising out of the enactment of the California Financial Information…
Clipper Card has some worried about privacy issues
Brent Begin reports: The swipe of a thin card allows Bay Area commuters to pay for public transportation across the region, but it also allows the transit agencies to track where the riders travel. Five major transportation agencies — Muni, BART, AC Transit, Golden Gate Transit and Caltrain — already accept the Clipper card as…
Unraveling Privacy as Corporate Strategy
Scott Peppet writes: The biometric technologies firm Hoyos (previously Global Rainmakers Inc.) recently announced plans to test massive deployment of iris scanners in Leon, Mexico, a city of over a million people. They expect to install thousands of the devices, some capable of picking out fifty people per minute even at regular walking speeds. At first the…