Julian Sanchez comes out swinging on the government’s dangerous proposal to expand their surveillance capabilities by requiring more backdoors into what should be our private matters: Taking a cue from the authoritarian regimes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies are seeking to re-engineer the Internet and other digital communications…
Category: Laws
In: Eight reasons why you should oppose Unique Identification: Stop UID Campaign
Nivedita Menon writes: Drafted by KALYANI MENON-SEN for the Stop UID Campaign AN APPEAL TO CITIZENS The National Identification Authority of India Bill approved by the Union Cabinet on Friday has sidestepped critical privacy aspects relating to profiling and function creep — a term used to describe the way in which information is collected for…
ECPA Reform–Inconsistent Holdings on Social Media
Andy Serwin writes: As the Senate Judicary Committee continues its analysis regarding ECPA, it should note that the statement that ECPA was “famous (if not infamous) for its lack of clarity” was reaffirmed by two conflicting decisions—one from the Central District of California, and one from New York, which reach opposite conclusions regarding the discovery and privacy…
Senate passes bill to limit access to SSN
Before they fled Washington early, the Senate managed to pass S.3789, the Social Security Number Protection Act of 2010. The bill, which had been introduced by Senator Feinstein, is designed to reduce identity theft and has two key provisions: (a) It prohibits governmental agencies from using individuals’ Social Security Numbers on any checks cut by the…