Josh Meyer reports: The first week on the job for Nicole Wong, dubbed by many as the US’s first chief privacy officer, has been fairly, well, private. The White House has named Wong, 44, a former top lawyer for Google and Twitter, as the new deputy US chief technology officer in the Office of Science and Technology Policy….
Category: Govt
Bipartisan Group of 26 Senators Seek Answers from DNI Clapper on Bulk Data Collection Program
The recent public disclosures of secret government surveillance programs have exposed how secret interpretations of the USA PATRIOT Act have allowed for the bulk collection of massive amounts of data on the communications of ordinary Americans with no connection to wrong-doing. Reliance on secret law to conduct domestic surveillance activities raises serious civil liberty concerns…
Anti-Hacking Bill Aiding Verizon Delayed by Snowden Leaks
Chris Strohm reports: Legislation to give Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and Google Inc. (GOOG) legal protection for sharing cyber-attack information with the U.S. government has stalled after leaks about spy programs showed the companies are already turning over data. Lawmakers have stopped advancing cybersecurity legislation until at least September as they gather more information about the National Security Agency…
FTC’s Brill Calls for Congress to Legislate New Data Privacy, Stuns Marketers
Kate Kaye writes that marketers were caught off-guard by FTC Commissioner Julie Brill’s “Reclaim Your Name” initiative, described in her keynote address as CFP this week: The Direct Marketing Association was caught off guard by Commissioner Brill’s announcement. “DMA has been in discussion with Commissioner Brill regarding ways to increase transparency in the ‘data broker’…