Mikael Ricknäs reports: Sweden will not put into effect the E.U. Data Retention Directive for at least a year, after a vote in the Parliament on Wednesday postponed the implementation of the directive. Approval of the directive would have made it mandatory for operators to store user data. […] The European Commission — the E.U.’s…
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The White House Gets Behind New Internet Privacy Efforts
Steven Gray reports: On Wednesday, the Obama administration went very public about online privacy. President Barack Obama’s top advisor on communications and information policy, Lawrence E. Strickling, told the Senate Commerce Committee that the administration now backs enforcement of a new “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” by the Federal Trade Commission. The endorsement comes months…
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on the State of Online Consumer Privacy
Nicole Friess has a recap of yesterday’s hearing on consumer online privacy: On March 16, 2011, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a full committee hearing on the state of online consumer privacy. The hearing was the first in a series of hearings the Committee will hold on consumer privacy in…
Wikileaks investigation produces novel ECPA standing decision
Jennifer Granick comments on the recent ruling that Twitter users had no standing to challenge the DOJ’s 2703(d) order to compel Twitter to produce non-content records of some individuals who have been associated with WikiLeaks: […] The Court’s reliance on Section 2704 to find no standing is interesting. Although Section 2704(b)(1) is titled “Customer Challenges,”…