A recent blog post generated some comments on Twitter about the privacy rights of criminals vs. the desire of victims’ families to know more and the public’s right or need to evaluate the performance of governmental agencies. While transparency and freedom of information are often clarion calls in the U.S., it appears that criminals in…
Category: Laws
The Deidentification Dilemma: A Legislative and Contractual Proposal
Bob Gellman always provides a lot of food for thought (see, for example, his recent comment on another post and the article he links to). Another one of his papers, mentioned in a past post, is now published in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (2011, vol 21, 33-61) and is available…
As International Privacy Day is Celebrated, Governments Continue to Chip Away at Privacy Rights
Katitza Rodriguez of EFF comments on Data Privacy Day 2011 and then writes: EFF calls upon governments worldwide to: Repeal the EU Data Retention Directive, and any mandatory data retention regime that requires ISP to preemptively record traffic data about the online activities of millions of citizens who haven’t committed any crime. Provide strong safeguards against…
Challenge to the new Dutch passport fingerprint database rejected by The Hague [corrected]
A Dutch reader sent me some disheartening news from his country today. It appears that a challenge to a law requiring all Dutch citizens provide their fingerprints for passports was rejected by The Hague. The fingerprints are to be maintained in a centralized registry, and privacy advocates have raised concerns about privacy, the security of…