AP reports: A newly released legal opinion says the Commerce Department is not required to provide census data to federal law enforcement or national security investigators. The Justice Department this week turned over a 2010 opinion from its Office of Legal Counsel after dropping a public records court fight with a privacy group. Read more…
Category: Govt
Judge tosses evidence obtained by agents posing as Internet repairmen
Ken Ritter of AP reports: Undercover FBI and Nevada regulatory agents misled a federal judge and violated the rights of a wealthy Malaysian businessman and his son by posing as Internet repairmen to get into Las Vegas Strip hotel rooms in a gambling probe last summer, a U.S. magistrate judge said. In a case with…
Website Operator Banned from the ‘Revenge Porn’ Business After FTC Charges He Unfairly Posted Nude Photos (UPDATED with statement by domain owner)
From the FTC: The operator of an alleged “revenge porn” website is banned from publicly sharing any more nude videos or photographs of people without their affirmative express consent, under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. In addition, he will have to destroy the intimate images and personal contact information he collected while operating the site….
Alberta’s Privacy Commissioner releases report on government information sharing
From the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) of Alberta: In recognition of Data Privacy Day, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has released independent research it had commissioned to provide a privacy perspective on multi-stakeholder government information sharing projects. The paper entitled Government Information Sharing: Is Data Going Out…