Vivian Wang reports: Bowing to fierce criticism from elected officials and privacy advocates, the New York City Board of Elections has removed the voter enrollment books that it had posted online, which had included every registered voter’s full name, party affiliation and home address. The books, spanning thousands of pages in searchable PDF format, were…
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N.S.A. ‘Unmaskings’ of U.S. Identities Soared Last Year, Report Says
Charlie Savage reports: Intelligence officials asked the National Security Agency to unmask the identities of Americans in surveillance-based intelligence reports 16,721 times last year — a significant rise from a year earlier, a new report revealed on Tuesday. But the N.S.A. also collected fewer logs of Americans’ phone calls and text messages for analysis by…
Cities Are Tracking Everyone’s Cell Phone Signal
Joe Cadillic writes: If ever you needed a reason to turn off your cellphone, then maybe this story this will convince you. The Palm Beach Post recently revealed how the City of Palm Beach, Florida wants to track everyone’s cellphones “The idea is to analyze where downtown visitors go — what shops, what public places,…
SEC Warns Advisers Over Privacy Compliance Issues
Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investment firms to step up their game when it comes to following the agency’s privacy rules. In a Risk Alert issued by the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), a laundry list of compliance “deficiencies or weaknesses” were identified in…