Edward Wyatt and Tanzina Vega report: … In the next few weeks, both the Federal Trade Commission and the Commerce Department are planning to release independent, and possibly conflicting, reports about online privacy. Top Commerce officials have indicated that the department favors letting the industry regulate itself, building on the common practice of user agreements…
Category: Laws
California Approves Amendments to Privacy Regulations
In what’s being called “a major victory for insurance agents and brokers,” the California Office of Administrative Law has approved Department of Insurance plans to repeal certain portions of its privacy regulations. The CDI filed with OAL on Sept. 22, 2010, a “change without regulatory effect,” arising out of the enactment of the California Financial Information…
NZ: Search & Surveillance Bill goes too far, EPMU
From their press release: The government’s Search & Surveillance Bill goes too far in extending search and seizure powers to allow the police to order journalists to hand over documents and reveal the identity of their sources, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU). These powers were recently used by the SFO to order…
Should Legislatures, Commissions, and Such Figure Out Privacy Problems?
Jim Harper writes: The recent European Commission proposal to create a radical and likely near impossible-to-implement “right to be forgotten” provides an opportunity to do some thinking about how privacy norms should be established. After quoting some interesting thoughts from philosopher-lawyer Bruno Leoni, Jim comments: The proposed “right to be forgotten” is a soaring flight of fancy, produced…