Law360 reports: A New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday that government contractor Magellan Health Services Inc. didn’t violate the federal Right to Privacy Act when it informed the Federal Aviation Administration about an FAA employee’s alleged drinking problems, saying the act applies only to federal agencies. Read more about the opinion in Repetto v. Magellan Health Services on…
Category: Govt
Big Data Quote of the Week?
On government mentality: The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time. Since you can’t connect dots you don’t have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it…
TSA tested, scrapped program that tracked Bluetooth devices
Scott MacFarlane reports: Lines can be long at airport security. The Transportation Security Administration knows too. Documents obtained by Eyewitness News showed TSA tested a project to measure how long. Sensors in the terminal found Bluetooth devices, honed in on the signals and tracked how long it took people to get through security. An internal…
CISPA panic may be premature – or appropriate – depending on whom you ask
Tony Romm seems to think privacy advocacy groups may be over-reacting to the re-introduction of CISPA: Washington technology and consumer advocates are aggressively carping that a revived House cybersecurity bill remains a toxic, nauseating, no-good threat to the future of the Internet. The only catch: It’s probably not that much of a threat at all….