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…
Category: Laws
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…
An Open Letter From Security Experts, Academics and Engineers to the U.S. Congress: Stop Bad Cybersecurity Bills
Via Dan Auerbach at EFF, this open letter to Congress: Dear Lawmakers, We are writing you today as professionals, academics, and policy experts who have researched, analyzed, and defended against security threats to the Internet and its infrastructure. We have devoted our careers to building security technologies, and to protecting networks, computers, and critical infrastructure…
When drones start flying over our neighborhoods, what will protect our privacy?
Congressmen Ed Markey and Joe Barton, co-chairs of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, have sent a letter to the FAA about drones and privacy concerns. They ask the right questions about transparency and privacy protections – questions I wish the FAA had been asked before the law had been passed. A response is requested by May…