Danny O’Brien of EFF wrote: Today is Data Privacy Day (also known as Data Protection Day), an international festival of our right to control our own personal information and to protect our communications from unchecked surveillance. […] We need to also make sure that politicians don’t increase the vulnerability of our data by increasing the amount of…
Category: Misc
The Hawks and Doves of Washington’s Privacy Debate: Which government officials will influence data privacy in 2014?
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…
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…