Evan Sernoffsky reports: After two weeks of growing outrage, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott apologized Friday for raiding a journalist’s home and office in a bid to unmask a confidential source, admitting the searches were probably illegal and calling for an independent investigation into the episode. Read more on the San Francisco Chronicle.
Category: Govt
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Charged in 18-Count Superseding Indictment
This press release and turn of events is just … mind-boggling. From the U.S. Department of Justice, earlier today: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Charged in 18-Count Superseding Indictment Charges Related to Illegally Obtaining, Receiving and Disclosing Classified Information A federal grand jury returned an 18-count superseding indictment today charging Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder…
NIST Continues to Make Progress on its Privacy Framework
Harriet Pearson, Paul Otto, Laurie Lai and Julian Flamant of Hogan Lovells write about the recently released discussion draft on NIST’s privacy framework. …..The draft Privacy Framework describes five core privacy “functions” for organizations to develop and implement that track the life cycle of an organization’s management of privacy risk: Identify (organizational understanding of privacy…
Amid a Spate of Activity, COPPA Remains an FTC Enforcement Priority
Bonnie Yeomans, Stephanie Kapinos and Kevin Milewski of Proskauer write: Earlier this month, the FTC sent a letter to Wildec, LLC, the Ukraine-based maker of several mobile dating apps, alleging that the apps were collecting the personal information and location data of users under the age of 13 without first obtaining verifiable parental consent or…