BBC reports: Netflix has paid $9m (£5.7m) dollars to settle a privacy-related legal action, a financial filing has revealed. The online streaming firm, which made no admission of wrongdoing, said the settlement related to compliance with the Video Protection Privacy Act. The 1988 US legislation prohibits the disclosure of video rental histories. It is reported…
Category: Laws
New law could open window for police to view Canadians’ online habits
Jason Magder reports: The Conservative government plans to introduce a law next week that would allow police to better monitor web-surfing habits of Canadians and to track them with electronic surveillance. Entitled “an Act to enact the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act and to amend the Criminal Code and others Acts,” the law…
Iowa bill allowing GPS tracking leaves some uneasy
Associated Press reports on reactions to a bill in the Iowa legislature that would permit police to attach a GPS device to a car if a judge issues a warrant. The tracking could be conducted for 30 days. When I saw AP’s headline, I expected to read that the bill didn’t require a warrant and…
Congress Welcomes The Drones
Kashmir Hill writes: The Senate passed a $63 billion bill Monday to provide four years of funding for the Federal Aviation Administration. One of the provisions of the Reauthorization Act is that the FAA clear the path for wider spread use of drones (a.k.a. unmanned aircraft) for governmental and commercial purposes. Within 90 days, the FAA has to speed…