James Vicini reports on a somewhat disappointing but unsurprising verdict by the Supreme Court: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a pilot from San Francisco, whose status as HIV-infected was disclosed by one federal agency to another one in violation of a privacy law, cannot sue for damages for mental and emotional distress….
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Occupy Tracking
A disturbing analysis and report by Tim Libert: Major advertisers and corporations have been quietly tracking the online movements of those visiting “Occupy Wall Street” related sites for months. They have have used this data to create detailed portraits of the lives and interests of potential protestors. This data is then sold in unregulated markets…
Official: stillborn French biometric ID card scheme not just extra-terrestrial but also unconstitutional, 13 times over
Remember France? Remember 6 March 2012 when the French parliament decided to introduce national biometric ID cards? In a scheme reminiscent of Vichy? 60+ members of the National Assembly and 60+ members of the Senate referred the law to the French Constitutional Council. What does the Council make of it? The Conseil constitutionnel published its Decision no. 2012-652 DC yesterday, 22 March 2012. They’re not pleased….
EU Gets Tough: Gives Google Two Weeks To Explain Data Practices
Christopher Brook reports: A French data privacy watchdog is raising alarms about Google’s data collection practices and has given the Internet search giant a little over two weeks to explain the way it handles the information of its users. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique (CNIL) sent a letter (.PDF) late last week to Google’s CEO Larry Page…