Sam Evans-Brown reports: The state House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban the use of GPS devices to secretly track people. The bill would make such tracking illegal someone without a court order. Read more on NHPR.
Category: Laws
UK: Axel Springer and Von Hannover judgments announced
The European Court of Human Rights has announced today that it will deliver two Grand Chamber judgments, in the cases of Axel Springer AG v Germany and von Hannover v Germany (No.2) on 7 February 2012. The cases were both heard more than 15 months ago, on 13 October 2010. We had a post about the hearing at the time (and an earlier preview).Both…
Official Assails Sharing of Passenger Data
James Kanter reports: Raising the stakes in a trans-Atlantic struggle over data privacy, an influential lawmaker said Tuesday that the European Parliament should reject a deal between the European Union and the United States that aims at sharing information about air passengers as a way to fight serious crime and terrorism. Sophie in ’t Veld, a Dutch member of…
Lawmaker pushes consumer notification bill in wake of Carrier IQ concerns
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has proposed a bill that would require all phone companies to notify consumers of any user tracking and monitoring software in their cell phones. Markey’s proposed Mobile Device Privacy Act is in response to the recent controversy surrounding the use of Carrier IQ’s user tracking software in millions of…