Jim McElhatton reports: The White House has secretly questioned the U.S. Postal Service about whether its change of address “welcome kit” program used by tens of millions of Americans violates the federal Privacy Act. Despite telling The Washington Times that it had no such records, the White House Office of Management and Budget made inquiries…
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LCBO ordered to stop collecting wine club member data
CBC News reports: Ontario’s privacy commisioner has ordered the province’s Liquor Control Board to stop gathering personal information from wine club members and to destroy any data collected from clubs so far. The ruling from Ann Cavoukian follows a complaint lodged last year by the Toronto-based Vin de Garde wine club. Read more on CBC…
DHS: 2012 Data Mining Report to Congress
Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office 2012 Data Mining Report to Congress February 2013 You can access the report here (pdf). If it were on Amazon, I can just imagine the review: “Chock-full of government-speak, this report is a must-read for acronym lovers everywhere!” And not for nothing, but yesterday, during the Location Tracking and…
The CISPA Government Access Loophole
Much has already been written about the reintroduction of CISPA – and all of it negative from the perspective of privacy advocates. Kurt Opsahl of EFF writes: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act—CIPSA, the so-called “cybersecurity” bill—is back in Congress. As we’ve written before, the bill is plagued with privacy problems and we’re urging concerned users to email their Representatives to oppose it….