Stephen Ohlemacher of the Associated Press reports: Senate votes to extend expiring surveillance provisions of USA Patriot Act for 1 yearThe Senate voted Wednesday to extend for a year key provisions of the nation’s counterterrorism surveillance law that are scheduled to expire at the end of the month. In agreeing to pass the bill, Senate…
Category: Laws
UK: No privacy laws, but the media must behave, say MPs
Frances Gibb reports: Newspapers and broadcasters run the risk of increased damages in privacy actions if they fail to tell people they will be exposing them, MPs say today. But the Culture, Media and Sport Committee has come down against making prior notification mandatory, as sought by Max Mosley, the former chief of Formula One….
CA: Lawmakers Consider an Animal Abuse Registry
Jesse McKinley reports: California may soon place animal abusers on the same level as sex offenders by listing them in an online registry, complete with their home addresses and places of employment. The proposal, made in a bill introduced Friday by the State Senate’s majority leader, Dean Florez, would be the first of its kind…
Location Data and Privacy Subject of Congressional Hearing Next Week
Marshall Kirkpatrick writes: Geolocation is quickly emerging as a big new platform to build all kinds of cool services on top of. While there’s a whole lot of potential – there’s also growing concern about the privacy implications of this flush of data about where we are. Thus it’s timely that a committee of the…