If you’re in the Denver area, you might want to check out this event: The Privacy Foundation is hosting a lunch on November 4. The topic is “Privacy Damage Theories.”
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UK Information Tribunal Rules Properly Anonymized Personal Data Can Be Disclosed Under FOIA
On September 7, 2011, the United Kingdom Information Tribunal published a decision that appears to resolve the long-running uncertainty regarding the extent to which anonymized personal information may be disclosed under the UK’s Freedom of Information legislation. The UK’s FOIA was introduced and applicable to most of the UK in 2000, with equivalent law following for Scotland…
Schools raise privacy concerns over NYPD spying on Muslim students
Chris Hawley and Matt Apuzzo of Associated report: With its whitewashed bell tower, groomed lawns and Georgian-style buildings, Brooklyn College looks like a slice of Colonial Virginia dropped into modern-day New York City. But for years New York police have feared this bucolic setting might hide a sinister secret: the beginnings of a Muslim terrorist…
FOIA and the Question of Secret Law
Robert Chesney writes: Charlie Savage of the New York Times has filed this FOIA suit in an effort to acquire a classified report issued by DOJ and ODNI to Congress “pertaining to intelligence collection authorities” under section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act (permitting the government to obtain from the FISC an order for the production of “any tangible…