Howard Bashman writes: By a vote of 6-to-6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today denied rehearing en banc of a three-judge panel’s decision that reinstated a suit challenging a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas conversations: You can access today’s order denying rehearing en banc, together with the opinions concurring and…
Category: Laws
Angola Passes Personal Data Protection Law
On June 17, 2011, the National Assembly of the Republic of Angola passed Law 22/11 on Personal Data Protection. The omnibus privacy legislation applies to the automated and non-automated processing of personal data by controllers based or operating in Angola, or subject to, or using equipment governed by, Angola’s laws. Read more on Hunton &…
E-Verify: De Facto national ID and the end of privacy
John Whitehead has this editorial in Desoto Times Tribune: As technology grows more sophisticated and the American government and its corporate allies further refine their methods of keeping tabs on citizens, those of us who treasure privacy increasingly find ourselves engaged in a struggle to maintain our freedoms in the midst of the modern surveillance…
Senate Tweaks Bill: Terms of Service No Longer Terms of Felony
Earlier this week, I linked to an impressive op-ed by Orin Kerr on how proposed changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would have serious unintended consequences such as making violation of a web site’s Terms of Service (TOS) a felony. Congress seems to have gotten the message. Joshua Gruenspecht writes: Yesterday, the Senate…