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…
Category: Laws
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…
FCC, FTC, NTIA officials to testify at House privacy hearing
Hayley Tsukayama reports: Lawmakers from the House Energy and Commerce Committee will ask federal officials this week for an overview of current privacy and data security legislation in the U.S., in the first of a series of planned subcommittee hearings. Federal Communications Commission head Julius Genachowski, Federal Trade Commission member Edith Ramirez and National Telecommunications…