Suzanne Smalley reports: The tech industry has shaped a series of weak privacy laws nationwide, according to a new report, with half of the 14 states to have passed such laws receiving failing grades and none receiving an “A” on the report’s scorecard. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and U.S. PIRG Education Fund assessed the…
Category: Laws
Dutch regulator fines Uber €10 mil. for violating privacy rules around drivers’ data
NL Times reports: Uber received a privacy fine of 10 million euros because the technology company is too unclear about how it handles the personal data of European drivers. According to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), which imposed the fine, Uber did not provide sufficient transparency about how long the company kept this type…
Film Companies Counter Reddit: “An IP Address is Not a Person”
Ernesto Van der Sar writes: Over the past decade and a half, hundreds of thousands of alleged BitTorrent pirates were taken to court for sharing mostly video content without permission from rightsholders. While this activity is still ongoing, at least to a degree, not all courts have welcomed this type of lawsuit. On several occasions,…
FCC Adopts EPIC Recommendations to Safeguard 911 Location-Based Routing Data
From EPIC.org: On January 25, the Federal Communications Commission adopted its Report and Order on Location-Based Routing (LBR) for 911 calls. Rather than directing a 911 call to an emergency assistance call center based on the area code of the phone (e.g., directing a 202 area code number to DC), or based on what cell tower is…