Sam Laird reports: California’s Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation to bar colleges and universities from requiring students to provide administrators with access to theirsocial media usernames and passwords. Governor Jerry Brown now must sign or veto the bill by Sept. 30. California is not the first state to pass legislation protecting social media privacy for…
Category: Laws
Does the Fourth Amendment have a Posse (Comitatus)?
Ryan Calo writes: Earlier this month, U.S. News & World Report ran the following headline: “Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use In Arrest Of American Citizen.” The article goes on to explain that a man was arrested in North Dakota with air support from a Predator B drone on loan from the Department of Homeland Security. His…
Police Chiefs Issue Recommendations on Drones; A Look At How They Measure Up
Jay Stanley of the ACLU has a thoughtful commentary on the code of conduct for drone use, recently promulgated by the association for police chiefs. You can read Jay’s analysis here. Like me, he was pleased to see some very strong privacy-protective recommendations, but a voluntary code of conduct does not have the force of…
Australian Privacy Foundation slams privacy amendments
Chris Jager reports: The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) has slammed the Federal Government’s proposed amendments to privacy legislation as a “lost opportunity” in improving areas such as credit reporting practices and protection from data off-shoring. APF board member Nigel Waters told a Senate inquiry late last week that the proposed bill would “significantly weaken” privacy…