A “fact sheet” issued by the White House outlines a proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights applies to personal data, which means any data, including aggregations of data, that is linkable to a specific individual. Personal data may include data that is linked to a specific computer or other device. …
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White House pushes for new privacy codes of conduct
Grant Gross reports: The U.S. White House will push for online businesses to adopt new privacy codes of conduct, including consumer rights to control what information websites collect about them and a right to see what data is being collected, officials there said. Members of President Barack Obama’s administration will officially announce details about its…
Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Over Keys to Occupy Wall Street Protester’s Location Data Without a Warrant
Hanni Fakhoury of EFF writes about the Twitter subpoena I previously mentioned on this blog. … The subpoena is astonishing not only for its poor grammar, but also for the breadth of information the government wants for a trivial crime that hardly requires it. The government’s request that Twitter hand over Tweets is unlikely to…
FTC Files Opposition / Motion to Dismiss in EPIC v FTC
From EPIC.org: The Federal Trade Commission today filed an opposition and a motion to dismiss in response to EPIC’s complaint to compel the agency to enforce the October 2011 Consent Order against Google. The government stated that EPIC would “deprive the Commission of the discretion to exercise its enforcement authority.” The government also charged that EPIC’s lawsuit is “completely baseless.” The papers were…