Bob Gellman writes: March 5, 2015Version 1.4The Obama Administration released its Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights (CPBR) on a Friday afternoon (2/27/15). In Washington, the late Friday press release is a classic way of trying to avoid attention and comment. The privacy community in general did not like the bill, with some calling it a…
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AL: Hubbard attorney: State may have violated privacy laws
Brian Lyman reports: In a filing Wednesday, an attorney for House Speaker Mike Hubbard accused state prosecutors of violating federal privacy laws and trying to prejudice the public by making dozens of emails between the Speaker and associates public. Lawyers for Hubbard, indicted in October on 23 counts of using his public office for personal…
Big Brother 2.0: 160,000 Facebook pages are hacked a day
160,000 Facebook accounts are compromised per day, and the company loosens up your privacy settings every time they update the terms of service. So claims Marc Goodman in his book, “Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It” (Doubleday). Read more on NY Post. Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this…
White House releases draft bill to protect consumer data privacy
Roberta Rampton reports: The White House released draft legislation on Friday that would give consumers more control over how the trail of data they leave behind them on the internet is used, stored and sold. The 24-page “discussion draft” on data privacy immediately sparked sharp reaction from the technology industry, which said the proposal would…