Mark Weinstein writes: For years now, stories have come out about how all of Congress hates Senator Ted Cruz. Former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh”and a “miserable son of a bitch.” He’s despised on both sides of the aisle, with Democratic Senator Al Franken this year stating…
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Warns Against Warrant-Proof Encryption
Inside Privacy writes: In a speech delivered at the United States Naval Academy on October 10, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein waded into the public debate between data privacy and law enforcement interests. As part of a discussion moderated by former Covington cybersecurity attorney Jeff Kosseff, Rosenstein’s remarks discussed cyber issues facing law enforcement with…
The End of Privacy
Andrew Burt, chief privacy officer and legal engineer at Immuta, and Dan Geer, chief information security officer at In-Q-Tel, write: We learned on Tuesday that three billion Yahoo email accounts were compromised in 2013. In early September, it was Equifax’s 143 million credit reports. Just a few months before that, we learned 198 million United…
FTC to Host Workshop on Informational Injury
The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop on informational injury on December 12, 2017. The FTC’s three main goals for hosting the workshop are to: “Better identify the qualitatively different types of injury to consumers and businesses from privacy and data security incidents;” “Explore frameworks for how the FTC might approach quantitatively measuring such…