John D. McKinnon and Marc Vartabedian report: U.S. tech companies, battered over their handling of consumers’ personal data, are hoping to get ahead of the public and legal fallout by working with policy makers to help shape potential new federal privacy legislation. The effort by tech coalitions such as the Information Technology Industry Council—representing internet…
Category: Govt
California DMV lies about the REAL-ID Act
Ed Hasbrouck writes: We’ve heard that the California Department of Motor Vehicles has posted scary new signs in DMV offices around the state misinforming motorists and holders of DMV-issued non-driver state ID cards about the Federal REAL-ID Act of 2005. We assume that these public disinformation messages are similar in content to the false answers…
Judge slams FBI for improper cellphone search, stingray use
Cyrus Farivar reports: A federal judge in San Francisco recently excoriated the government over its improper methods in searching one suspect’s cell phone and in the use of a stingray to find an alleged co-conspirator. Prosecutors say the two men, Donnell Artis and Chanta Hopkins, were engaged in credit card fraud and also illegally possessed…
Meanwhile, down in Australia…..
I haven’t had time to properly write anything up, but since last night, I have been reading the alternately frustrated and infuriated tweets from Australians trying to opt out of #MyHealthRecord. The opt-out period opened yesterday, and it appears to be a cock-up of immense proportions, with many people unable to opt out online, then…