Grant Gross reports: U.S. Web users are increasingly asking for tougher online privacy protections, even as they give more of their personal data to Web sites. And Internet-based companies are asking for certainty about privacy rules from U.S. regulators even as they also ask for flexibility to create new products, a U.S. official said Monday….
Category: Laws
Motorcyclist wins taping case against state police
Score one for the citizenry! Peter Hermann of the Baltimore Sun reports: A Harford County Circuit Court judge ruled this afternoon that a motorcyclist who was arrested for videotaping his traffic stop by a Maryland State Trooper was within his rights to record the confrontation. Judge Emory A Pitt Jr. tossed all the charges…
Government Seeks Back Door Into All Our Communications
Seth Schoen of EFF writes about the disturbing news that the government is going for another expansion of its ability to surveill us: …. Throughout the 1990s, EFF and others fought the “crypto wars” to ensure that the public would have the right to strong encryption tools that protect our privacy and security — with…
Canada’s Anti-Spam Act back on the order paper
Bill C-28, called the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act (or, more formally: An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal…