It’s Data Privacy Day, and I’ll have more on that later today, but I thought it would be interesting to see “what the other side” considers the big players in privacy legislation. Katy Bachman writes on AdWeek: Ever since Edward Snowden’s revelations about government surveillance, every day has been data privacy day in Washington. But…
Category: Misc
Sen. Schumer seeks $10 million to buy GPS devices to track autistic children
Associated Press reports: The federal government would pay for GPS tracking devices for autistic children under legislation proposed Sunday by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and named for a New York City boy who wandered away from his school three months ago and was found dead in a city river. “Avonte’s Law,” named for 14-year-old Avonte…
Rethinking the privacy laws
Orin Kerr writes: The final version of my new article, The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act, 162 U. Pa. L. Rev. 373 (2014), has just been published. The article considers how Congress should update the privacy laws that regulate government access to e-mail and other Internet communications, both for contents and metadata, in criminal investigations. Read…
Chrome browser becomes eavesdropping tool
Any computer running the Chrome browser can be subverted to eavesdrop on conversations happening around it, claims a developer. Israeli coder Tal Ater found the bug while working on his own speech recognition software. Despite Google finding a way to fix the bug in October 2013 the update has yet to be rolled out to…