Steven Aftergood writes: For the first time the U.S. Army has produced official doctrine on military activities in cyberspace, including offensive, defensive and network operations. A new Army field manual “provides overarching doctrinal guidance and direction for conducting cyber electromagnetic activities (CEMA)…. It provides enough guidance for commanders and their staffs to develop innovative approaches…
Category: Govt
DHS cancels national license plate tracking plan
Ellen Nakashima and Josh Hicks report: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday ordered the cancelation of a plan by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to develop a national license plate tracking system after privacy advocates raised concern about the initiative. The order came just days after ICE solicited proposals from companies to compile…
U.S. takes the gold in doling out privacy fines – but so what?
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,…
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…