This may be the strongest pro-privacy statement I’ve seen from President Obama. Let’s hope it’s not just posturing and rhetoric: The Administration is committed to increasing public-private sharing of information about cybersecurity threats as an essential part of comprehensive legislation to protect the Nation’s vital information systems and critical infrastructure. The sharing of information must…
Category: Laws
CA: Senators strip reporting requirement from location privacy bill
James Temple writes: Senator Mark Leno’s bill banning warrantless government searches of cell phone location information survived its first test at the California State Legislature, but it didn’t emerge unscathed. The ACLU of Northern California, a co-sponsor of the measure, told The Chronicle that the California Location Privacy Bill passed through the Public Safety Committee late Tuesday,…
Democrat plans privacy amendment to cybersecurity bill
Brendan Sasso reports that Rep. Adam Schiff plans to offer an amendment to CISPA: Schiff’s amendment would restrict the government’s ability to collect personally identifiable information, such as names or birthdays. The amendment would also narrow the purposes for which the government could use the information. The measure would adopt language from a separate bill…
Wireless providers side with cops over users on location privacy
Declan McCullagh reports: The nation’s largest wireless providers oppose a proposed California location privacy law that would require police to obtain search warrants to track a wireless customer’s whereabouts, CNET has learned. […] S.B. 1434 would also require wireless providers to divulge “the number of times location information has been disclosed,” and how many times…