Wendy Davis reports that online ad companies may have escaped government regulation for now: The Federal Trade Commission’s upcoming report about behavioral advertising will include suggestions for how online ad companies can better protect consumers’ privacy, but won’t recommend that Congress enact new laws, commission member Julie Brill said on Tuesday. “The Commission isn’t calling…
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Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor
The Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor on the Communication from the Commission on the global approach to transfers of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to third countries has been released. I look forward to reading analyses of the opinion. Here are some its statements: 17. As developed below, the EDPS considers that the bulk…
ACLU VT back in court over warrantless cell phone surveillance
From the ACLU of Vermont: There is a high wall protecting the secrecy of police investigations, and it can be breached in only very limited circumstances, argued a lawyer for the Vermont Attorney General’s Office in Superior Court in Montpelier on Monday. But if Vermonters can’t get information about how police are conducting investigations, how…
School district loses out on a teachable moment on privacy
This is a story that will likely never make national headlines, but it is an instructive incident on student privacy and why parents cannot rely on schools to respect or teach the children about privacy. Elizabeth Doran reports from New York: Two Fayetteville-Manlius parents called on the school board Monday night to notifiy parents whose…