Simon Davies writes: My friend and colleague Robert Ellis Smith was kind enough recently to reprint my “twenty privacy principles that they never taught you at school” blog in his excellent US publication Privacy Journal. I’ve subsequently received a few messages suggesting that I should consider writing about the new language of privacy. This is…
Category: Misc
Recording Romney, Part Two
The second part of Jeffrey P. Hermes’ analysis of the legality of recording Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser is now up on Citizen Media Law Project (Part One here). What a great example of information being freely available on the Internet. Kudos to Jeff Hermes and CMLP for informing those of us who want…
Recording Romney, Part One
Earlier this week, I pointed to some coverage questioning the legality of recording presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s comments at a private fund-raising event. Now there’s a more in-depth legal analysis of the issue by Jeffrey P. Hermes of Citizen Media Law Project that is well worth reading: As will be discussed below, there are a…
E-Mail Privacy Reform Vote Postponed Until After Elections
David Kravets reports: A Senate committee on Thursday delayed until after the November elections whether to approve sweeping digital privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud. The move by the Senate Judiciary Committee to table considering the first…