Mathew Dearnaley reports: Auckland Transport is under fire for claiming a right to pass personal information about Hop card users to third parties unless specifically asked not to. The council body is urging users of its new $100 million electronic ticketing system to register their AT Hop cards to safeguard any stored credit if those…
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Transcript of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham
I splurged and purchased a copy of the transcript of Thursday’s oral argument in FTC v. Wyndham . You can download it here (PDF, 561kB, 186 pp.). Consider it an early holiday gift from PogoWasRight.org to you. I look forward to reading everyone’s reactions after we’ve all had time to read it. I did a…
A good day for the FTC in federal court?
I didn’t get to Newark for oral argument on Wyndham’s motion to dismiss the FTC’s complaint about their data security, but from early media coverage last night, it sounds like things went pretty well for the FTC. From the quotes provided in coverage by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek, it sounds like Judge Salas is not…
Markey calls for federal privacy protections for use of drones while DHS tries to keep some details secret
Not everyone was satisfied with the FAA’s nod to privacy in the drone integration roadmap it released yesterday. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), today issued the following statement after the FAA released its “road map” for integrating…