Here’s another one I missed while I away at the Health Privacy Summit this week, but thankfully, Joe Cadillic sent it to me. Mark Harris reports: Verizon, the US’s largest wireless telecom company, is developing technology with Nasa to direct and monitor America’s growing fleet of civilian and commercial drones from its network of phone towers. According…
Category: Govt
NIST Opens Comment Period On Privacy Risk Management Draft
Chris DiMarco reports: The National Institute of Standards and Technology is probably best known for the cybersecurity guidelines it released in late 2013, but the organization frequently authors reports on critical issues in the technology space. The NIST recently released a draft of one such report designed to aid federal organizations in processing private citizen…
UK: Findings from ICO audits and follow up reviews of police forces
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: This report highlights our experience of personal data handling of police forces, based on 40 ICO audits and 30 follow-up audits. It is intended to help forces, and others in the criminal justice sector see where they can make improvements in how they handle personal data.
Judge probes destruction of evidence in NSA leak prosecution
Marisa Taylor reports: A federal judge is investigating allegations that the government may have improperly destroyed documents during the high-profile media leak investigation of National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephanie Gallagher’s inquiry was launched after Drake’s lawyers in April accused the Pentagon inspector general’s office of destroying possible evidence during Drake’s criminal…