Dan Wiessner of Reuters reports: Fortune-tellers beware: palm-reading could land you in New York state’s criminal DNA database. Convicted graffiti artists, subway turnstile-jumpers and anybody who writes a bad check could also end up with their genetic information permanently on file under a proposal by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Read more on Yahoo! Canada. Odd how…
Category: Laws
Why Video Privacy Matters – Neil Richards
Neil Richards writes: The House of Representatives recently passed an amendment to a fairly obscure a law known as the Video Privacy Protection Act. This law protects the privacy of our video rental records. […] Industry groups are fond of saying that good privacy practices require consumer notice and consumer choice. The current Video Privacy…
California’s Privacy Class Action Litigation Du Jour: “Shine the Light” Law
Theodore J. Kobus III reminds businesses that trolling lawyers are looking for opportunities to file class-action lawsuits where statutory damages are available without any showing of harm: Privacy class action litigation is hot in California and a new wave of lawsuits are being filed under California’s 2003 “Shine the Light” law, codified in Cal. Civ. Code…
Is Privacy Act Violated as Voting War’s GOP Hit Man is Fed Leaks By Justice Department Mole?
Steven Rosenfeld writes: A crusading GOP critic of the Obama Justice Department’s Voting Section, Hans von Spakovsky, has admitted to having Department sources that are leaking apparently confidential and highly personal information that he is using to viciously attack Voting Section staff and to smear the Department at large. Leaking such information — including details…