John Henry Clippinger writes: Many hope that the “privacy problem” will simply go away. There is just too much money to be made keeping the status quo. But that won’t happen. The “privacy bomb” is about to go off, leveling business models and ambitions with a “big bang” to be heard around the globe. Read…
Category: Laws
Social-networking sites face new privacy battle
Wyatt Buchanan reports: California could force Facebook and other social-networking sites to change their privacy protection policies under a first-of-its-kind proposal at the state Capitol that is opposed by much of the Internet industry. Under the proposal, SB242, social-networking sites would have to allow users to establish their privacy settings – like who could view…
UK backs EU-wide PNR plan after 15 countries back extension of proposal to internal EU flights
The UK has opted in to draft EU proposals to track passengers on EU flights after its proposed amendments gained support from 15 other countries. Original pan-EU plans to collect passenger name record data (PNR) applied only to flights to and from EU countries from outside the EU. The Government has opted in to the…
Texas House passes bill banning TSA ‘groping
Jim Forsyth and Corrie MacLaggan of Reuters report: The Texas House of Representatives late on Thursday approved a bill that would make invasive pat-downs at Texas airports a crime, after a former Miss USA said she felt “molested” at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport last month. Transportation Security Administration agents could be charged with a misdemeanor…