The American Bar Association filed suit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Federal Trade Commission, seeking an injunction to block the application of the so-called Red Flags Rule to practicing lawyers. As the BLT previously reported, the bar association has been lobbying for months to exempt lawyers from…
Category: Laws
Democratic health care bill divulges IRS tax data
Over on Taking Liberties, Declan McCullagh has some commentary on provisions in the proposed health care bill, H.R. 3200, that relate to privacy. Some of the provisions in the massive bill include: Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income,…
Do DNA ‘prints’ invade privacy?
Being fingerprinted upon arrest is so commonplace, few people think twice about it. But what if the arresting agency wanted to take DNA? And run it against an index of unsolved crimes? And then store it in a database for eternity? Over the past several years, DNA collection has become more common, and it’s regularly…
Discussion underway about privacy cause of action
Richard Ackland in the Sydney Morning Herald and the editorial in The Australian today comment on the NSW Law Reform Commission recommendation for a statutory cause of action for breach of privacy. Ackland is somewhat bemused about aspects of the report, but doesn’t dismiss the recommendation and the earlier Australian Law Reform Commission proposal, suggesting…