On December 15 2011, the White House announced the President’s intention to nominate David Medine as Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Yesterday, the Senate confirmed him in a 53-45 vote, with two senators not voting. Will the PCLOB actually make a difference, though? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Category: Misc
Privacy surprises … that somehow aren’t
Stewart Baker writes: If you’re looking for laws of unintended consequences, you can’t do better than privacy. Take two examples plucked from last week’s front pages: Here’s the New York Times reporting on massive fraud in the billion-dollar settlement of claims that the Agriculture Department discriminated against black, Hispanic, and female farmers: Read more on The Volokh…
Privacy is overrated – Richard A. Posner
Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is also a senior lecturer with the University of Chicago Law School. He has an OpEd in the New York Daily News called “Privacy is Overrated.” Here are just two snippets: [Mayor Bloomberg] wants concerns with privacy to take second place to…
Missouri photo biometrics plan in limbo
David A. Lieb of Associated Press reports: With its financing in jeopardy, Missouri has slowed work on a high-tech computer program intended to catch potential fraud or criminals by conducting a biometric analysis — or facial recognition — of digital photographs taken for state driver’s licenses and identification cards. Read more on SFGATE.com. Although the main…