Joby Warrick, Peter Finn and Ellen Nakashima report: With 82 city-owned surveillance cameras and scores of private ones, New York’s Times Square may well be among the most scrutinized patches of real estate on Earth. So when a bomb-laden Nissan Pathfinder rolled into the famed plaza Saturday evening, it was inevitable that multiple cameras would…
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Facebook’s Privacy Controls Broken
Dan Tynan writes: I’ve spent a fair amount of time lately messing about with Facebook’s privacy settings, which is almost like having a life, but not quite. Then I discovered something odd and disturbing: I cannot make all of my “likes and interests” private so that only my friends can see them. Even when I…
New breach notification requirements in effect in Canada
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Alberta: Amendments to the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) were proclaimed in force on May 1, 2010, and added a new requirement for organizations to notify the Information and Privacy Commissioner of incidents “involving the loss of or unauthorized access to or disclosure of personal information where…
Can We Rely on Privacy Policies?
Dan Solove introduces an invited article on Concurring Opinions: With the recent case of Saffold v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co., involving a newspaper website that outed an anonymous commenter who was a judge, we invited Woodrow Hartzog to write a post about these issues. Woodrow is the author of a terrific article about the enforceability…