Stephen Bell reports: A recent amendment to privacy law — the Privacy (Cross-Border Information) Amendment Act – aims at meeting conditions set by the European Union on the privacy of personal information sent to or through New Zealand. However, the Privacy Commissioner’s office acknowledges there are still holes in the protection of personal information that…
Category: Laws
ECPA Reform – An Overview of Issues to be Considered
Andy Serwin writes: The Senate Judiciary Committee has been holding hearings on whether the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ECPA, should be reformed. There are many who believe that ECPA reform is long over due, including the ACLU, in light of recent technological changes, particularly the increasing use of cloud computing, while there are some that…
MCLU: Unpopular law could be headed toward repeal
Bonnie Warshuk reports: With a growing number of school boards advising parents not to give the state their children’s Social Security numbers, the law could be headed for repeal next year in Augusta, the Maine Civil Liberties Union said Thursday. So far, school committees in 14 cities and towns have voted to recommend parents not…
Pointer: More on today’s hearings on ECPA reform
Alex Howard has updated his coverage of the Congressional hearings on updating Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to include today’s witnesses. Read the story and watch the interviews on O’Reilly Radar.