Gregory McNeal writes: The FAA may be poised to release regulations that will impose a minimal burden on businesses, paving the way for integration of drones into the national airspace. Information about the forthcoming regulations is contained in an inadvertently published document that appears to be an FAA economic analysis of the long awaited regulations for small drones….
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Cybersecurity Summit Exposes Silicon Valley’s Privacy Fears
Danny Yadron and Damian Paletta report: For a moment here Friday, it was the chief executive of Apple Inc. vs. the president of the United States. Speaking just before Barack Obama at a conference on computer security, the iPhone maker’s Tim Cook gave perhaps one of the most impassioned defenses of digital privacy from a corporate executive—in this case the CEO…
Privacy Advocates Sue DOJ For Info About Planes Used To Snoop On Cellphones
Chris Morran writes: Last November, a Wall Street Journal report pulled back the covers on a U.S. Marshals Service program that uses small planes carrying devices that mimic cellphone towers, allowing them to track criminals but also scoop up information from countless other phones of citizens not involved in any crimes. After months of trying to get…
White House Releases Report on “Big Data and Differential Pricing”
From The Chronicle of Data Protection: Today, the White House released a report titled, “Big Data and Differential Pricing.” The report examines the concern that companies will use the consumer information they collect to more effectively charge different prices to different customers. While it finds that there are substantive concerns about differential pricing in the…