Taylor Soper reports: It’s time for Amazon.com to become more transparent about surveillance requests by the U.S. government. That was message from Chris Soghoian, the ACLU Principal Technologist famous for publicizing the faulty privacy practices of tech companies. Sogohian was in Seattle on Wednesday evening speaking at a Town Hall event titled “Reining in Our Surveillance Society.” Read more on GeekWire.
Category: Govt
Connecticut Attorney General Jepsen Forms Permanent Department on Privacy, Data Security within Office of the Attorney General
March 11, 2015 – Attorney General George Jepsen today announced the creation of a new department within the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General – the Privacy and Data Security Department – that will work exclusively on investigations and litigation related to privacy and data security. In 2011, Attorney General Jepsen appointed a multidisciplinary Privacy Task…
Congressional Privacy Bill: Commercial Privacy Rights Act of 2015
Caleb Skeath writes: As we reported yesterday, the Congressional Privacy Bill has been released, following the release of the White House’s proposal for a privacy bill in late February. The bill contains the Commercial Privacy Rights Act of 2015, the Congressional counterpart to the White House’s proposal, along with data breach notification provisions and the “Do Not Track…
US Government Makes Slight Concession in Twitter’s Warrant-Canary Suit
Brett Max Kaufman reports: The US government last week conceded for the first time that some companies have the right to publish so called “warrant canaries” in a new filing supporting its partial motion to dismiss Twitter’s effort to publish more detailed statistics about the national-security surveillance requests the company has (or has not) received….