Jonathan Ansfield reports: News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country’s Internet users and media have fiercely opposed in the past. Until recently, users could weigh in on news items on many…
Category: Govt
Grade the Obama administration’s work on privacy!
From EFF: The Privacy Coalition is inviting the public to give the Obama Administration a grade on its privacy work thus far. Visit the Privacy Report Card page and vote to give the administration a grade anywhere from an “A” to an “F” — or, if you prefer, an “Incomplete.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/grade-obama-administrations Direct link to consumer…
Should public housing residents be drug tested?
I had met Shirley Newsome a couple of times before she got up and spoke at the public comment hearing Tuesday evening. It wasn’t a surprise to me that she was there. Shirley Newsome is the definition of being involved in her community, and the hearing allowed people to comment on a new plan for…
US FTC may pick privacy expert, Obama ally-sources
Diane Bartz of Reuters reports that Julie Brill, North Carolina’s senior deputy attorney general and chief of consumer protection is being considered to fill a vacant commission seat at the FTC, “according to antitrust sources with knowledge of the administration’s thinking.” According to Reuters: Brill previously worked in the Vermont Attorney General’s consumer protection and…