Gary Juskowiak discusses a court decision reported here last month: Parents who are concerned about their child’s well being might use hidden electronic monitoring devices such as hidden audio recording devices and nanny cams. Unfortunately, parents who use these devices may unwittingly violate federal and state law. In Lewton v. Divingnzzo (PDF), a mother was…
Category: Laws
A Response to Commissioner Rosch on Do Not Track
Jonathan Mayer writes: Late last week FTC Commissioner Rosch penned a column in which he repeated a number of hackneyed criticisms of Do Not Track. Senators McCaskill and Pryor articulated similar concerns at a recent hearing. This piece sequentially deconstructs Rosch’s column and replies to each of his substantive critiques. Read Jonathan’s counterpoint on CIS. …
Information Privacy Law Set to be Enacted in South Korea in September
Song reports: Korea’s Ministry of Public Affairs and Security announced a new set of laws on Tuesday in a move to protect private information. According to the new law, set to go in effect in September, will require some 3-and-a-half million businesses and public institutions to publish their policy for processing private information and prohibit…
Privacy: reidentification a growing risk
Melanie D.G. Kaplan interviewed Paul Ohm on the re-identification of supposed-to-be de-identified records. Here’s a snippet of the interview, which you can read in its entirety on SmartPlanet: Earlier this month the Commerce Department released a green paper that proposes a privacy bill of rights. What are your thoughts on this? I think it’s great…