The following press release was issued by Senator Ron Wyden on July 14: Congress has until late 2012 to extend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008’s expiring new authorities and U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Col.) say Congress should use the time to thoroughly consider how the law has been interpreted and implemented. In a letter…
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Waxman: Privacy Self-Regulation Not Working
Wendy Davis reports: The online ad industry’s voluntary measures to protect consumers’ privacy are falling short, a senior lawmaker said Thursday. “Self-regulation isn’t working,” Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade. He added that a report posted this week by Stanford researchers…
U. of I. disclosure appeal gets under way in federal court
Antonio Olivo reports: The University of Illinois on Wednesday filed its opening brief in an appeal to a federal court ruling that a privacy law governing financial aid does not bar the school from releasing information about hundreds of well-connected college applicants. In an ongoing legal dispute that stems from the Tribune’s 2009 “Clout Goes…
Additional Law Enforcement Endorses PCIPA’s 18-Month Mandatory IP Address Retention for ISPs
Richard L. Santalesa writes: In the wake of the H.R. 1981, the “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 (PCIPA), proposed May 25, 2011 by U.S. Representatives Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the head of the House Judiciary Committee, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the National Sheriffs’ Association, a organization representing 3,000+ Sheriff’s offices around the country, announced in…