Scott Thistle reports: Maine has joined dozens of states in refusing to share personal voter information with President Trump’s voter fraud commission. But the state regularly sells the very same data to political parties, candidates and ballot question or issue-based political action committees. In fact, over the last two years, Maine collected more than $30,000…
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FTC Approves Modifications to TRUSTe’s COPPA Safe Harbor Program
Hunton & Williams writes: On July 31, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it has approved modifications to TRUSTe’s safe harbor program under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “COPPA Rule”). The COPPA Rule incorporates a “safe harbor” provision that allows companies and industry groups to seek the FTC’s approval for self-regulatory frameworks…
Newly declassified memos detail extent of improper Obama-era NSA spying
John Solomon reports: The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama years by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’…
Judge Clears Way for Trump’s Voter Fraud Panel to Collect Data
Matthew Haag reports: A federal judge on Monday cleared the way for President Trump’s commission on voter fraud to proceed in gathering personal data on the nation’s voters, denying one of the major legal challenges aimed at stopping the collection effort. The panel, which was created after the president falsely claimed that millions of illegal…