Jonathan T. Cain of Mintz Levin writes: A rule to require federal contactors handling personally identifiable information to train their employees in safeguarding the information is close to release. Under the anticipated rule, contractor employees will have to undergo either agency training when the agency chooses to make it available, or will have to provide…
Category: Govt
Court Cool To Privacy Lawsuit
Zoe Tillman reports: A federal appeals panel expressed doubt last week about a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the government’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records. The judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit hearing the dispute — the second one to come before a court — questioned…
Getting Caught Up: News You May Have Missed
Below are links to news developments or commentaries published during the two days that PogoWasRight.org was unavailable. They are semi-organized by topic, with some overlap between sections. Great thanks to Joe Cadillic, who helped me keep track of what I needed to save while the site was suffering from Table Dysfunction Disorder: Businesses: Suspect in rape/abduction…
Objection Before Phone- Cracking for Feds Is OK
Adam Klasfeld reports: Just in time for Halloween, a federal magistrate gave the government a fright by restricting its prodigious power to surveil cellphones. U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein’s five-page order Friday does not identify any information about the manufacturer, suspect or alleged crime at issue in the case of on his docket. But his…