Norman Oder of Library Journal reports: In a flurry of comments filed with the federal court New York overseeing the proposed Google Book Search settlement, library groups have stepped up their criticism, joined by several industry heavyweights. On the other side, a variety of supporters have emerged, notably smaller academic institutions that believe that the…
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Obama’s secret plan to harvest personal data from social networking websites
Ken Boehm reports that the: NLPC [National Legal and Policy Center] has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails,…
Opinion: Obama takes stand for secrecy, executive power
Over on Politico, Josh Gerstein writes: President Barack Obama’s administration is escalating a legal showdown which has the Justice Department defending official secrecy and executive power with arguments more associated with former Vice President Dick Cheney than the White House’s newest occupants. On Wednesday afternoon, the Justice Department filed an appeal and a request for…
Proskauer On Privacy Conference
A Conference on Global Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age. 10/08/09 08:00 AM to 11:45 AM Location: Grand Hyatt New York 109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central Terminal Manhattan Ballroom New York, NY 10017 Proskauer Contact: Kathleen Maiorana Email: [email protected] Description: Please join us for our annual Proskauer on Privacy conference…