Kenneth Corbin writes: Representatives of some of the leading social sites on the Web today urged federal regulators to resist calls to establish heavy-handed rules that would set limits on the use of consumer data on social networks, warning that far-reaching regulations would threaten to choke off a fast-growing sector of the digital economy. The…
Category: Govt
UK: Lancashire County Council uses snooping powers
Melanie Wallwork reports: Snooping powers have been exercised hundreds of times by Lancashire County Council over the last five years. Cleaners who repeatedly failed to show up for work, and a care assistant who claimed too much on travel expenses, were among those caught through surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). A…
The missing Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Alan Charles Raul, who served as vice chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from 2006 to 2008, has a letter to the editor in today’s Washington Post that begins: The Jan. 19 front-page article “FBI broke law for years in phone record searches” missed a key part of the story. The lack…
Confidentiality concerns may deter some civilian victims from reporting sex crimes
Erik Slavin reports: Civilian victims of sexual assault on military bases are entitled to much less confidentiality when reporting the crime than military victims, a disparity that some victims and a senior military expert on the issue believe is suppressing reports and prosecutions. Less than a third of all sexual assault reports that prompt an…