The ACLU has released a new report, ENFORCING PRIVACY: Building American Institutions to Protect Privacy in the Face of New Technology and Government Powers. The report was written by Jay Stanley. From the Executive Summary: Privacy laws are of limited value if institutions for enforcing such laws do not exist. The United States, unlike nearly…
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Google Book Search Settlement Revised: No Reader Privacy Added
Cindy Cohn of EFF comments on the revised Google Book search settlement proposal: Late Friday night the parties to the Google Book Search class action submitted a revised settlement agreement to the federal court in New York that is hearing the case. Unfortunately, the parties did not add any reader privacy protections. The only nominal…
Confidential plans for 1.2 billion ID cards for India
From Wikileaks.org: This confidential working paper (49 pp) presents the current plan for India’s Unique ID Databse (sic) Project. Numerous RTI (Right to Information ) petitions failed to obtain this document about the world’s biggest citizen identification scheme. Because the project will likely become a model for many countries the document is of global interest….
EFF Obtains Records from Behind-the-Scenes Negotiations on Telecom Immunity
From the good folks over at EFF: Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted thousands of pages of records detailing behind-the-scenes negotiations between government agencies and Congress about providing immunity for telecoms involved in illegal government surveillance. The documents include drafts of legislation and communications between Congress and the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the…