There’s something very discomforting in this report by Kurt Bayer about how a council in Scotland has been using surveillance powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act for minor everyday types of disputes: The guitarist with rockers The View has been spied on by council officials over claims he is an anti-social neighbour….
Category: Laws
Ie: Analysis of the new Data Retention Act
T.J. McIntyre writes: Ronan Lupton (barrister and also chair of Irish telecom industry body ALTO) has written a particularly useful and well informed analysis of the impact of the new Data Retention Act on Irish law and has been kind enough to allow me to mirror it here. Read his analysis of the Communications (Retention of…
Commissioner Says Do-Not-Track is Not FTC-Endorsed
Jack Marshall reports: The FTC has not endorsed a do-not-track mechanism for online advertising and data collection, nor has such a concept been properly vetted for feasibility, according to FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch. In an opinion piece published by AdAge today, the commissioner wrote, “The concept of do-not-track has not been endorsed by the commission…
CBO: Taxing mileage a ‘practical option’ for revenue enhancement
Pete Kasperowicz reports: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released a report that said taxing people based on how many miles they drive is a possible option for raising new revenues and that these taxes could be used to offset the costs of highway maintenance at a time when federal funds are short. The…