From EPIC.org: EU President Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba announced today that European countries would not rush to install body scanners as the United States has urged. He said that there will first be studies to determine whether the devices “are effective, do not harm health, and do not violate privacy.” The European countries have agreed that…
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Microsoft Seeks New Legal Framework For Cloud
J. Nicholas Hoover reports: Microsoft is asking Congress to pass new legislation to regulate cloud computing, Brad Smith, the company’s general counsel, announced Wednesday in an address at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Specifically, Microsoft is proposing what it calls the Cloud Computing Advancement Act, which would make changes to three major areas of…
EFF Plans Appeal of Jewel v. NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Case
A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&T customers challenging the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls and emails. “We’re deeply disappointed in the judge’s ruling,” said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. “This ruling robs innocent telecom…
FTC Releases Agenda for Second Roundtable on Consumer Privacy and More Information for Third Roundtable
The Federal Trade Commission today released the agenda for its second roundtable on consumer privacy issues scheduled for January 28, 2010. The second roundtable, hosted by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, will take place at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Booth Auditorium. The roundtable is the second of three public…