Struan Robertson of Out-Law.com has an editorial piece on how the fate of online advertising cookies in the UK is tied to a file-sharing bill that has as yet to be resolved: Visitors to websites in Europe may soon face a barrage of pop-ups that seek their consent to internet cookies. Bizarrely, the plan to…
Category: Laws
Privacy and civil liberties: Where’s the watchdog?
Alan Charles Raul is a a lawyer in Washington, and was vice chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from 2006 to 2008. He wrote an OpEd in the Washington Post that begins: Assuming the executive branch is still fighting terrorists as fiercely as necessary to protect Americans, the need for oversight on…
Cell-Tracking Bills Require Info Dump for Missing Persons
David Kravets reports: Mobile phone companies would have to immediately turn over location data to emergency responders to help them quickly track missing persons, if any one of the four bills floating in the House get traction. The law already allows, but does not automatically require, phone companies to turn over ping data from cell…
House passes bill excluding some businesses from Red Flag Rules
The House of Representatives passed H.R. 3763, a bill that amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for an exclusion from Red Flag Guidelines for certain businesses. As passed by the House, the following would not be considered “creditors” under the new Red Flag Rules: a health care practice with 20 or fewer employees…