Amber Corrin reports: While data travels from point A to point B on the Internet, exactly where it goes in between is not really clear. A consequence of this mysterious routing is that the point at which an adversary might attach malicious code is hard to identify. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying…
Category: Govt
White House Releases Draft Privacy Principles for the Precision Medicine Initiative
Jennifer S. Geetter and Chelsea M. Rutherford of McDermott Will & Emery write: Six months after the Precision Medicine Initiative’s (Initiative’s) debut, the White House has released a working draft of proposed privacy and trust principles (the Principles) to govern future design and development efforts for the national research cohort envisioned by the Initiative. This cohort will be a…
FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY: Commercial Uses, Privacy Issues, and Applicable Federal Law
Highlights from a new GAO report: What GAO Found Facial recognition technology can be used in numerous consumer and business applications, but the extent of its current use in commercial settings is not fully known. The technology is commonly used in software that manages personal photographs and in social networking applications to identify friends. In…
Congress’ fix for high-profile hacks is yet another way to grab your private data
Senator Ron Wyden writes: The government can’t keep its own data safe, but Congress wants companies to give it even more of your private information In the wake of a series of widely-publicized hacks, including the recent compromise of government personnel records, the US Senate rushed to take up a bill that supporters say will…