Randall Chase reports: State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill prohibiting universities and colleges in Delaware from requiring that students or applicants for enrollment provide their social networking login information. The bill, which unanimously passed the Senate shortly after midnight Saturday, also prohibits schools and universities from requesting that a student or applicant log…
Category: Laws
GOP Senators revise cybersecurity bill
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A group of Republican senators on Wednesday introduced a revised version of a previously proposed bill that seeks to enhance cybersecurrity by improving the sharing of information between private industry and government. The new Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information and Technology Act (SECURE IT) is being put forth…
Ad Biz Claims It Must Disregard User Privacy Choices to Safeguard “Cybersecurity”
Rainey Reitman and Lee Tien of EFF write: At a hearing yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee took up the issue of online tracking, the browser-based Do Not Track flag, and, in an unlikely turn of events, cybersecurity. The hearing included testimony from Ohio State University Law School’s Prof. Peter Swire, Mozilla’s Alex Fowler, the Association of National Advertisers’ Bob…
Privacy self-regulation efforts are working, senators told
Grant Gross reports: The online industry doesn’t need new privacy legislation because it is doing a good job of protecting users’ privacy, an executive of an advertising trade group told U.S. lawmakers Thursday. Even as Senator John “Jay” Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, promised to push for new privacy legislation,…