Jay Cline of Minnesota Privacy Consultants compiled some interesting data on privacy breach violations. He writes: The European Union is threatening to suspend the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement that U.S. companies depend on to do business with Europe, claiming that America doesn’t enforce its side of the bargain. Any way you cut the data, however,…
Category: Govt
Privacy concerns prompt Utah AG’s office to abandon controversial subpoenas
Robert Gehrke reports: Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has discontinued his office’s use of administrative subpoenas, a controversial law-enforcement tool that lets investigators gather certain Internet or cellphone records without getting a warrant, raising serious privacy concerns. Instead, investigators in the attorney general’s office are now required to go to a judge and get an…
Wyden doesn’t support Paul’s NSA lawsuit
Rebecca Shabad reports: Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) on Thursday said he doesn’t support Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) lawsuit against President Obama and the National Security Agency. “I believe that legislation, not a Senate-brought lawsuit is the only effective way to stop this behavior of the NSA,” Wyden said in a statement provided to…
Homeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database
Paul Joseph Watson writes: The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their smartphone and upload it to a database which will include a “hot list” of “target vehicles”. The…