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’…
Category: Govt
Student group “Europe vs. Facebook” challenges firms over NSA data transfers
Cyrus Farivar reports: In the wake of the disclosure of the National Security Agency’s mass digital surveillance program, a group of Austrian students have filed a series of formal complaints with a number of European data protection agencies. The case could become the first legal proceeding challenging disclosure of non-American data to the American government on the…
Senators Wyden and Udall ask General Alexander to correct significant inaccuracies in “fact sheet”
Today, Senators Wyden and Udall wrote to General Alexander requesting corrections in a recent NSA fact sheet on surveillance authorities. “In our judgement this inaccuracy is significant, as it portrays protections for Americans’ privacy being significantly stronger than they actually are,” wrote Wyden and Udall. The Senators could not state exactly what those inaccuracies are…
Leahy Renews Legislative Push to Limit Surveillance Authorities & Bolster Oversight
Press release from Senator Patrick Leahy: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Monday introduced legislation that would add important reforms and improve certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and FISA Amendments Act. The FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 will bolster existing privacy safeguards and require greater oversight, transparency, and…