Kate Tummarello reports: Members of Congress will meet with privacy advocates, a privacy researcher and an online advertising industry representative to talk about digital privacy on Wednesday. The meeting will be the second of ten meetings about online privacy held by the House Commerce Committee’s Bipartisan Privacy Working Group, led by Reps. Peter Welch (D-Vt.)…
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Does the original meaning of the First Amendment protect a right of privacy in campaign contributions?
David Kopel writes: My Independence Institute colleague Rob Natelson examines the question from an originalist perspective, in a new working paper published on SSRN. His analysis is summarized in this blog post on his website. In brief: political contributions are best analyzed as a form of Freedom of the Press. The Freedom of the Press includes the right to…
Freedom of the Press Foundation Launches SecureDrop, an Open-Source Submission Platform for Whistleblowers
From Freedom of the Press Foundation: Freedom of the Press Foundation has taken charge of the DeadDrop project, an open-source whistleblower submission system originally coded by the late transparency advocate Aaron Swartz. In the coming months, the Foundation will also provide on-site installation and technical support to news organizations that wish to run the system, which has been renamed…
For your reading list
Some recent articles on privacy and surveillance, available on SSRN, that you may want to add to your to-read list: Three Paradoxes of Big Data Neil M. Richards Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law Jonathan H. King Washington University in Saint Louis September 3, 2013 66 Stanford Law Review Online 41 (2013)…