Lindsey Tonsager writes: The FTC has denied AssertID’s request to recognize a new method for obtaining verifiable parental consent for the online collection, use, and disclosure of personal information from children under 13. The application was the first of its kind to be filed since the FTC added a voluntary parental consent approval process to its revised rule implementing the…
Category: Govt
Google updates transparency report
Pointer: Google has updated its transparency report. In a companion piece on their public policy blog, Richard Salgado, Google’s Legal Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security writes: In a year in which government surveillance has dominated the headlines, today we’re updating our Transparency Report for the eighth time. Since we began sharing these figures with you in 2010, requests from…
Intelligence Lawyer Robert Litt Claims Searching For Possible Privacy Violations Will Violate Privacy
Tim Cushing writes: The ODNI’s head counsel, Robert Litt, had made statements over the past few months that seem to hint that he’s actually some sort of android, rather than a living, breathing human being. Maybe this is what happens to anyone who spends too long on the inside of the intelligence panopticon. When delivered…
Americans’ personal data shared with CIA, IRS, others in security probe
Marisa Taylor reports: U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply had purchased certain books. Federal officials gathered the information from the customer records of two…