The California legislature passed an important breach notification bill authored by state Senator Joe Simitian this week, but will Governor Schwarzenegger veto this bill too, as he did the last time around in its previous incarnation? Senate Bill 1166 would mandate certain information about the breach be included in any notification. In a press release…
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New YorK State’s new end-run approach to compiling DNA database
Michael Virtanen reports: Local prosecutors in New York are being urged to collect DNA samples as part of plea bargains in all misdemeanor cases after a bill that would have required the record keeping got stuck in the Legislature. The state has data on genetic material from about 365,000 criminals convicted of felonies or at…
Second England footballer wins gagging order
In England, your privacy rights seem to be a function of how much privacy you can afford to pay a lawyer for. Matthew Moore reports: A second footballer has obtained a gagging order to prevent the reporting of details about his private life. The super-injunction granted by Mr Justice Nicol in the High Court on…
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
Paul Ohm’s article, “Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization,” appears in the August issue of the UCLA Law Review. The abstract: Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques that protect the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information…