The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served Google Inc with an enforcement notice over the collection of payload data by Google’s Street View cars in the UK. Stephen Eckersley, ICO Head of Enforcement, said: “Today’s enforcement notice strengthens the action already taken by our office, placing a legal requirement on Google to delete the remaining payload data…
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EPIC Recommends Privacy Protections for Natural Disaster Survivors
From EPIC.org: In comments to the National Institutes of Health, an agency component of Health and Human Services, EPIC urged the agency to safeguard personally identifiable information following natural disasters. The agency proposes to use the PEOPLE LOCATOR system and related mobile app ReUnite™ to reunite “family and friends who are separated during a disaster.” The PEOPLE LOCATOR system allows third…
Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
Glenn Greenwald and James Ball report: Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information “inadvertently” collected from domestic US communications without a warrant. The Guardian is publishing in full two documents submitted to the secret…
Silicon Valley and Spy Agency Bound by Strengthening Web
James Risen and Nick Wingfield report on the (cooperative/collaborative/too-cozy?) relationship between Silicon Valley and the NSA. Here’s a snippet: Despite the companies’ assertions that they cooperate with the agency only when legally compelled, current and former industry officials say the companies sometimes secretly put together teams of in-house experts to find ways to cooperate more…