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…
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On Privacy and Cloud Computing Challenges
By Rebecca Herold (The Privacy Professor) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI Is Cloud Computing Cumulus or Cirrus? At Thanksgiving dinner last November, some of my relatives (none of whom are in the IT, information security or privacy industries) asked what I was writing about now. I mentioned that I was looking into the privacy implications…
FBI Broke Privacy Laws, Says Justice Department Probe
Massimo Calabresi reports: The FBI repeatedly broke the law between April 2003 and November 2006 in its efforts to monitor telecommunications in line with counterterrorism objectives, a Justice Department investigation has found. A report released Wednesday by the Department’s Inspector General, Glenn Fine, reveals that three major telecom companies — whose identities remain classified —…
Judge nixes class-actions in Microsoft WGA lawsuit
Gregg Keizer reports: A federal judge has killed class-action allegations in a lawsuit that accused Microsoft of misleading consumers when it fed them anti-piracy software under the auspices of a critical security update, according to court documents. The move means that Microsoft will not be faced with millions in potential damages. Last fall, Microsoft’s lawyers…