I won’t be online much Wednesday morning, but wanted to note this upcoming hearing: “What Facial Recognition Technology Means for Privacy and Civil Liberties” Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law DATE: July 18, 2012 TIME: 02:30 PM ROOM: Dirksen 226 OFFICIAL HEARING NOTICE / WITNESS LIST: July 11, 2012 NOTICE OF…
Category: Misc
Dust off the proposal to revise ECPA
You can ‘t see it, but I generally stick out my tongue at stories or commentaries that talk about the “end of privacy” or “lessons learned.” But there’s an editorial in the NY Times that you might want to read as it attempts to breathe new life into a bill revising ECPA that had been…
Privacy groups question NTIA’s focus on mobile privacy transparency
Grant Gross reports: The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s first step toward developing a consensus on mobile privacy standards may be the wrong step, privacy advocates said. The NTIA’s first multistakeholder meeting on mobile privacy, Thursday in Washington, D.C., focused on ways to improve the transparency of the privacy practices of mobile apps, but…
Even candidates deserve privacy at home
The Portland Press Herald published an editorial that deserves broader distribution and discussion: The website Politico — which covers politics, naturally enough — reported this week about an escalation in “opposition research” that should concern Americans of all political persuasions. For those who aren’t familiar with what campaign strategists call “oppo,” it usually involves researching…