Patricia Cohen reports: Hoping to protect privacy in an age when a fingernail clipping can reveal a person’s identity, federal officials are planning to overhaul the rules that regulate research involving human subjects. But critics outside the biomedical arena warn that the proposed revisions may unintentionally create a more serious problem: sealing off vast collections…
Category: Laws
Pointer: Cell Phone Data and Expectations of Privacy
FourthAmendment.com points us to an article by Peter A. Crusco in the New York Law Journal that provides a nice synopsis of Supreme Court and other cases on cell phone data – including location information – and the Fourth Amendment. You can read it on Law.com.
No Friends in Ireland: Probe Begins Into Facebook Privacy Issues
Privacy watchdogs began an on-site investigation Tuesday of Facebook’s regional office in Ireland, FoxNews.com has learned, following sensational accusations that the company is creating extensive “shadow profiles” of non-users. The eye-popping assertion came in a complaint filed in August by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner, which alleges that users are encouraged to hand over the personal…
UK: MPs call for tougher personal data abuse laws
Courts should have the power to jail people who breach the Data Protection Act, MPs on the justice select committee have said. They say fines – usually about £150 per breach – are an “inadequate” deterrent when the financial rewards can be considerable. Their report also warns the information commissioner lacks the powers to fully…