Cecilia Kang blogs: Google increased its first-quarter spending on lobbying by more than 50 percent to argue its position on privacy, online advertising competition and net neutrality to members of Congress, federal regulators and the White House. According to documents filed Tuesday with Congress, the company spent $1.38 million on lobbying in the first quarter…
Category: Laws
Immigration reform could lead to biometric Social Security card
Antonio Olivo reports that problems with the E-verify system have led two senators to proposed biometric SSN cards – to the consternation of privacy and civil liberties groups: … Two U.S. senators prominent in immigration reform efforts have proposed that all Americans be issued biometric Social Security cards, containing data from either a fingerprint or…
Missouri considers restricting access to court records
Chris Blank reports: More information about people involved in the court system could be kept private under new rules being considered by a committee of Missouri judges. The changes would cover civil and criminal cases and affect the release of personal information through the state court system’s online Casenet public database. Under the proposed rules,…
Md. law limits military recruitment of high school students
Michael Birnbaum reports: Maryland schools will no longer forward scores from a popular vocational test to military recruiters under new legislation that requires high school students to send the information themselves. The test, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, is administered by the military in schools across the country as a public service…