Ben Bain reports: Senate aides familiar with proposed legislation that would define the president’s power to deal with a cybersecurity emergency say the bill wouldn’t give the government sweeping control over the country’s digital infrastructure as some critics have claimed. The controversy stems from language in a bill introduced in April by Sens. Jay Rockefeller…
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Census Workers Sworn to Confidentiality—for Life
Erik Fowle of New America Media reports: As thousands of trained Census Bureau workers gear up to begin the 2010 census of the United States population, one thing makes their service unlike any other job. All census takers must take an oath that they will never reveal the information they collect as they knock on…
Privacy Groups: Obama Has More Work to Do
Depending on which headline you read, President Obama either got failing grades or mixed grades on privacy when privacy groups issued their report card on privacy yesterday. And depending on which privacy group best reflects your priorities on privacy, the president is either earning average, decent, or incomplete grades or is failing. Grant Gross of…
“Protecting Privacy for Canadians in the 21st Century”
Resolution of Canada’s Privacy Commissioners and Privacy Enforcement Officials on Bills C-46 and C-47 CONTEXT The federal government tabled two pieces of legislation in June 2009 aimed at giving Canadian law enforcement, national security agencies and others (hereafter referred to as “authorities”) broader powers to acquire digital evidence to support their investigations. Bill C-46, the…