Joseph Menn of Reuters reports: A cybersecurity bill introduced by Republican Senator John McCain could dramatically expand the domestic reach of United States intelligence agencies and potentially give them massive troves of emails, civil liberties advocates said. “This is a privacy nightmare that will eventually result in the military substantially monitoring the domestic, civilian Internet,”…
Category: Laws
Feds’ personal financial data may be posted online
Sean Reilly reports: The financial disclosure forms for at least 28,000 senior federal civilians and military officers would be posted on the Internet under a bill now moving through Congress. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act , already passed by the House, would require that financial disclosure forms be posted on a government…
Will We Ever Get Strong Internet Privacy Rules?
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….
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…