The Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Watchdog and several other advocates are hosting a conference call Sept. 1 to make recommendations about how Congress may better regulate behavioral targeting. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all use behavioral targeting to better serve ads to Web surfers. The groups want to be heard by Congress, which is working…
Category: Laws
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
Declan McCullagh reports that Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting…
New Maine privacy law goes too far, lawsuit says
The new Maine law intended to protect the personal information of minors, often referred to as the Maine Predatory Marketing Law, is now under legal fire in court. The Portland Press Herald reports: Four groups are mounting a challenge in federal court to a new Maine law that would make it illegal to collect or…
Views sought on privacy law review
From the government of Hong Kong: The Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Bureau has launched a three-month public consultation on the review of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to gauge views on proposals to amend the law. Secretary for Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam said today there is a need to examine whether the law…