Tony Romm writes: The odds of Congress passing an online privacy bill this year get slimmer by the day, leading interest groups to fire up a lobbying blitz with an eye toward 2011. Supporters and critics of the effort are asserting themselves strongly in a debate over how companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook…
Category: Laws
Future of Privacy Forum Founder Does Not Expect Online Privacy Bills to Pass This Year
Kashmir Hill interviews Chris Wolf, co-founder of the Future of Privacy Forum. Here’s a snippet of the interview: Kash: As Congress gets back to work, they’re going to be talking about online privacy and debating the drafts of these online privacy bills from Boucher and Rush. I’ve read through them, and they’re complicated. (Surprise, surprise.)…
UK: Police legal advice gives spam RIPA protection
Amberhawk Training reports on how MPS views stored communications in terms of privacy protections: The voicemail hacking incident is still exercising MPs – especially the Labour ones who did little to protect individual privacy during the party’s decade in power (see last week’s blog). So when Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police Service…
MEPs repeat attempt to force ACTA transparency
In contrast to our government’s attempt to keep us all in the dark over ACTA negotiations, others are pushing for transparency. Out-Law.com reports: The European Parliament has repeated its call for greater transparency in negotiations over an international intellectual property agreement. A majority of MEPs has signed a declaration demanding the publication of negotiation documents….