Adam Cohen writes: … The Obama administration’s privacy guidelines are a step in the right direction. They create a “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights,” which contains good privacy principles, starting with “individual control,” meaning that consumers have the right to exercise control over what personal data is collected about them and how it is used….
Category: Laws
EPIC Urges DHS to Abide by Privacy Laws When Conducting Technology Research
From EPIC: Earlier this week, EPIC submitted comments to the DHS on “The Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research.” DHS sought public views on the privacy implications of ethical human subject research in information and communication technology research. EPIC said that many federal privacy laws, such as the Privacy Act of 1974, set out legal standard…
EPIC sues U.S. Dept of Education
EPIC has filed suit against the U.S. Dept. of Education over its recent amendments to the Family Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA). The federal complaint, which was filed in the D.C. District Court yesterday, alleges that the amendments are not in accordance with the law and exceeded USED’s authority. The amendments provided definitions of terms such…
Expanding DNA Databases is Problematic
An op-ed by Brandon Garrett of the University of Virginia School of Law begins: In a decision on February 23, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Haskell v. Harris, found that an expansion of the California DNA databank to include DNA taken not just from convicted felons, but from all people arrested…