Thanks to FourthAmendment.com for pointing me to this article on FavStocks by “Bungalow Bill:” The next time you enter a San Francisco movie theater, the following demand might be made. “Your papers please.” With no regard to the Fourth Amendment, city leaders are considering a bill that would require residents to have their ID scanned…
Category: Laws
Privacy ‘bill of rights’ exempts government agencies
Declan McCullagh reports: Two U.S. senators introduced sweeping privacy legislation today that they promise will “establish a framework to protect the personal information of all Americans.” There is, however, one feature of the bill (PDF) sponsored by senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) that has gone relatively unnoticed: it doesn’t apply to data…
Reader Privacy Bill Passed Through California Senate Judiciary Committee
Rebecca Jeschke writes: California has taken another big step towards updating reader privacy for the digital age. The State Senate Judiciary Committee passed through SB 602, the Reader Privacy Act, after hearing testimony from EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn and others in support of the bill Tuesday. […] SB 602, introduced by California Sentaor Leland Yee, protects…
Nice try, but no cigar yet? Reactions to ‘‘Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011’’
Preliminary responses to the Kerry-McCain commercial privacy bill are in, and as I expected, most privacy groups are not endorsing it as proposed. I still haven’t had a chance to actually read it yet, but Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica reports: Not everyone is cheering, though. A coalition of consumer groups—including Consumer Watchdog, Center for…