From the Brennan Center for Justice: The Brennan Center for Justice submitted comments on the mid-term and long-term agenda of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), recommending that the Board focus on four issues: 1) the FBI’s authorities under the Attorney General’s Guidelines, 2) fusion centers and Suspicious Activity Reporting, 3) the NSA’s…
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The Potemkinism of Privacy Pragmatism
Chris Hoofnagle writes: A revolution is afoot in privacy regulation. In an assortment of white papers and articles, business leaders—including Microsoft—and scholars argue that instead of regulating privacy through limiting the collection of data, we should focus on how the information is used. It’s called “use regulation,” and this seemingly obscure issue has tremendous implications…
National identity card a threat to our privacy
The Brattleboro Reformer posted this editorial that appeared in The Kennebec Journal of Augusta (Maine) on Aug. 28: If the federal government can’t get states to sign on to the Real ID law, it has only itself to blame. All the darkest nightmares of privacy advocates who warned in the early 2000s of an Orwellian state in which…
Code Club founder quits in Google privacy row
Nick Morrison reports: One of the founders of an after-school club that paved the way for the introduction of coding to the national curriculum has quit in a row over student privacy. Code Club was set up in 2012 to teach programming skills to primary pupils and its volunteers now work in more than 2,000…