Ken Berry writes: As part of its ongoing efforts to deter identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on use of truncated Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TINs). The new regulations, which apply to those who furnish and receive payee statements and tax-related documents, generally follow proposed regulations issued last year, albeit with some modifications. Based…
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CDC’s National Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is spying on kids & parents
Joe Cadillic excerpts reports by Government Technology and MtAiryNews: The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is using data analysis to identify children and families most at risk, and thus inform how time and money is allocated. When the DCF started this project two years ago, the goal was to see fewer dead children…
Reddit, Privacy Groups Call On Obama To Reject Cybersecurity Bill
Cat Zakrzewski reports: A coalition of 30 companies and privacy groups, including Reddit and search engine DuckDuckGo, on Tuesday demanded that President Barack Obama promise to reject a controversial cybersecurity bill. The bill has come under fire for its loose limits on sharing information about cyber threats without properly filtering personal information from it among government agencies, including the National…
UK: Emergency data retention law could fail same tests as the existing law
John Salmon and Luke Scanlon write: The government has proposed a new data retention law to replace one that was based on an EU directive that EU’s top court the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) struck down in April. […] While the proposed Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (9-page / 153KB PDF) seeks to improve the…