Stephanie Condon reports: After working for the past year with consumer privacy advocates, inudstry groups and companies like Amazon, a U.S. federal agency has finally released a set of drone privacy guidelines. The guidelines, from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), focus on protecting personally identifiable information but leave plenty of room for big data collection….
Category: Govt
Federal judge orders USG to turn over dox on 100,000 immigrants
Ian Millhiser reports: A federal judge with a history of anti-immigrant sentiment ordered the federal government to turn over the names, addresses and “all available contact information” of over 100,000 immigrants living within the United States. He does so in a strange order that quotes extensively from movie scripts and that alleges a conspiracy of attorneys “somewhere in the…
Court Rules EPIC Must Wait to Challenge Missing Drone Privacy Rules
From EPIC.org: The federal appeals court in Washington, DC ruled today that EPIC’s suit against the Federal Aviation Administration must be set aside because the agency has not yet finalized the rules for drone operations in the United States. EPIC previously filed suit against the FAA after more than 100 groups and experts petitioned the agency to conduct a rulemaking on…
FBI Seeks to Keep Its Biometrics Database Above the Law
Catalin Cimpanu writes: This past Thursday, the FBI proposed that its biometric database be exempt from several provisions of the Privacy Act, US legislation that mandates that any federal agency must inform individuals about the records they collect and keep about them. The FBI’s Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) is a database of biometrics information such as…