The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) will conduct a public hearing to continue the PCLOB’s study of the federal government’s surveillance program. The meeting is open to the public. Date: March 19, 2014, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Location: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Matters to Be Considered: The Privacy and…
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Newsweek article gets backlash for privacy invasion
An article on Newsweek by Leah McGrath Goodman is getting a lot of negative feedback. In her piece on the creator of Bitcoin, Goodman repeatedly acknowledges Satoshi Nakamoto’s desire for – and efforts to protect his – personal privacy, yet the piece provides a lot of personal details on him, including a picture of his home…
How do EU and US privacy regimes compare?
Phil Lee writes: As an EU privacy professional working in the US, one of the things that regularly fascinates me is each continent’s misperception of the other’s privacy rules. Far too often have I heard EU privacy professionals (who really should know better) mutter something like “The US doesn’t have a privacy law” in conversation;…
Google Glass attack offers a new lens on privacy concerns
Kurtis Alexander reports: When a tech consultant showed off her Google Glass the other night at the Haight Street bar Molotov’s, the result was explosive – and reflected a growing debate over whether the cutting-edge device that mounts a computer and camera on a wearer’s face goes too far and breaks the social compact. Read more…