The Federal Trade Commission welcomed the approval by the forum on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) of a new initiative to harmonize cross-border data privacy protection among members of APEC. The initiative is designed to enhance the protection of consumer data that moves between the United States and other APEC members, at a time when more…
Category: Laws
Once again, is privacy headed for defeat in a “balancing” act?
As I have often remarked, whenever you “balance” privacy against something else, privacy will lose. Consider a report today by Sean Murphy of Associated Press that a plan that would better protect the privacy of Oklahomans is encountering resistance: A plan to restrict the amount of personal information included in public court records is drawing…
The Twitter Wikileaks case: how an outdated law makes a researcher’s impressive analysis somewhat irrelevant
Over on Slight Paranoia, privacy and security researcher Chris Soghoian does a brilliant job of delving into a section of the recent opinion in the Twitter Wikileaks case. In the opinion issued this week, Judge O’Grady addressed the issue of whether three people associated with Wikileaks had any reasonable expectation of privacy in their IP…
German agency may fine Facebook over program
Ah, if it’s Thursday, Facebook must be in trouble with German data protection again. Bloomberg reports: Facebook Inc. may be fined by a German data-protection agency over a feature that uses facial-recognition software to suggest people to tag in photos on its social-networking site. Facebook introduced the feature in Europe “without informing users or getting…