From FCW: Privacy advocates are puzzled and dismayed by the Homeland Security Department’s recent addition of new categories of personal information it plans to collect and store for all employees, contractors and volunteers who regularly access DHS facilities. The new categories of information include mother’s maiden name and financial history, according to a June 25…
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NZ to plug privacy gaps in law
New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner, Marie Shroff, in a submission to the Law Commission, has supported closing gaps in the current legal framework around privacy. The Commissioner made a submission to the Law Commission’s Stage 3 issues paper “Invasion of Privacy: Penalties and Remedies”, which looks at changes needed to the criminal and civil law to…
NY AG suing Tagged.com
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he has served the social networking site Tagged.com (“Tagged”) with formal notice that his office intends to sue the company for deceptive email marketing practices and invasion of privacy. According to Cuomo’s notice of intent, Tagged devised an illegal plan to lure new members and artificially inflate…
Jewel v. NSA back in court next week
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Obama administration will be back in Judge Vaughn Walker’s court on July 15 when the court takes up the administration’s motion to dismiss a case involving warrantless surveillance of Americans. EFF brought the suit on behalf of Carolyn Jewel, a California database administrator who is an AT&T customer,…