March 12, 2019 – With increased tracking of children and teens online and the collection their personal data a widespread practice, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) today introduced legislation to update children’s online privacy rules for the 21st century. The legislation updates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by prohibiting…
Category: Govt
EPIC Investigates the Transfer of Personal Data from DHS to Census Bureau
From EPIC.org: EPIC has submitted urgent Freedom of Information Act requests to the Department of Homeland Security (USCIS and the Office of Immigration Statistics) and the Census Bureau for records about the planned transfer of personal data from DHS to the Census Bureau. After a federal judge in California ruled that adding a citizenship question…
Nicky Hager settles charges against Westpac in significant NZ privacy case
Over the past five years, I’ve posted a number of stories concerning the illegal surveillance of journalist Nicky Hager and Hager’s attempts to hold the government accountable. I have nothing but respect for him for pushing back against illegal surveillance. Some of the significant aspects of his case arose from an illegal raid in 2014…
Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says
Charlie Savage reports: The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the Sept. 11 attacks. The agency has not used the…