The FTC reminds everyone: The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop exploring the practices and privacy implications of comprehensive data collection. FTC Commissioner Julie Brill will deliver the opening remarks, and Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen will provide remarks after lunch. Consumer protection organizations, academics, business and industry representatives, privacy professionals, and others will join FTC staff…
Category: Govt
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom allowed to seek damages against spy agency
Jeremy Kirk reports: New Zealand’s High Court ruled Wednesday that Kim Dotcom and a Megaupload colleague can pursue damages against police and one of the country’s spy services for illegally intercepting their communications. In her judgment, Justice Helen Winkelmann also added the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) as a defendant in the case, ordering the…
Idaho Transportation Dept info sales pull $5.4M
The Associated Press reports: The Idaho Transportation Department makes more than $5.4 million a year selling motor vehicle records and other personal information to companies that use it to research car buying patterns, send out recall notices and even track down scofflaws who don’t pay parking tickets given out by private companies. Department spokesman Jeff…
National Security Wiretaps, or Just Snooping?
Philip A. Janquart reports: Aside from monitoring terror threats, the National Security Agency eavesdrops on the private communications of Americans for fun, a class says in the 6-year-old case against the federal wiretap program. The allegation appears in the latest opposition brief a class filed as the government seeks dismissal or summary judgment for the…