Loek Essers reports: Google has agreed to on-the-spot audits at its U.S. headquarters in order to comply with Italy’s data protection laws. The Italian data protection authority (DPA) imposed several privacy measures on Google after an investigation into the company’s policies that was completed in July 2014. On Friday, the authority said Google will comply…
Category: Govt
Global Regulation of Data Flows in a Post-Snowden World
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill covered a lot of ground in her speech at the Tuck School of Business, Darthmouth College. You can read her statement here (pdf).
UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications, while Lenovo addresses Superfish #SuperFail
Alan Travis and Owen Bowcott report: The regime under which UK intelligence agencies, including MI5 and MI6, have been monitoring conversations between lawyers and their clients for the past five years is unlawful, the British government has admitted. […] The admission that the regime surrounding state snooping on legally privileged communications has also failed to…
Our brief in support of Twitter’s lawsuit against the US government for violating the First Amendment
Trevor Timm writes: Yesterday, NYU Technology Law & Policy Clinic filed a legal brief on behalf of Freedom of the Press Foundation in Twitter’s important lawsuit against the government for violating their First Amendment rights. Buoyed by the Snowden disclosures that began eighteen months ago, tech companies like Twitter have been attempting to issue detailed…