Kevin Bankston breaks the good news/bad news: In the face of stiff resistance from Yahoo! and a coalition of privacy groups, Internet companies and industry coalitions led by EFF, the U.S. government today backed down from its request that a federal magistrate judge in Denver compel Yahoo! to turn over the contents of a Yahoo!…
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Federal Regulators Release Model Consumer Privacy Notice Online Form Builder
Eight federal regulators released an Online Form Builder today that financial institutions can download and use to develop and print customized versions of a model consumer privacy notice. The Online Form Builder, based on the model form regulation published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2009, under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, is available with several…
Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties concerning “Report by the Office of the Inspector General on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Use of Exigent Letters and Other Informal Requests for Telephone Records”
The testimony, here, makes clear that the FBI misused and abused exigent letters. In many cases, there was no real emergency and in many cases where the FBI said that subpoenas had been sought, they had not been sought at all. Fine’s testimony also describes how the FBI engaged in other improper practices such as…
Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology – April 2010 Erika McCallister Tim Grance Karen Scarfone Executive Summary: The escalation of security breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII) has contributed to the loss of millions of records over the past few years. Breaches involving PII are hazardous to both individuals and organizations. Individual…