Melissa Ngo writes: The federal Chief Information Officers Council has released a report (pdf) detailing recommendations for a cloud computing privacy framework. Cloud computing is when you upload, store and access your data at an online service owned or operated by others. Millions of consumers use cloud computing services such as Web-based e-mail, online photo or…
Category: Govt
Groups ask attorney general to discard ‘Utah list’
Lee Davidson reports: Several civil rights groups are asking Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff not to use a now-infamous list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants to pursue criminal charges against them. More than 100 groups made a similar request last month to federal immigration officials. Now, many of them are asking the same of Shurtleff…
New YorK State’s new end-run approach to compiling DNA database
Michael Virtanen reports: Local prosecutors in New York are being urged to collect DNA samples as part of plea bargains in all misdemeanor cases after a bill that would have required the record keeping got stuck in the Legislature. The state has data on genetic material from about 365,000 criminals convicted of felonies or at…
UK: Council’s breach of Data Protection
Laura Wild of Rochdale Online seems convinced that Rochdale Borough Council breached Data Protection rules when they gave out the mobile phone numbers of 1000 people for a research program: The research, being carried out by London Company, OCR International, on behalf of the council, has been slammed by the public, not only for wasting…