On SSRN, this article by Daniel J. Solove: Abstract Individual privacy rights are often at the heart of information privacy and data protection laws. The most comprehensive set of rights, from the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), includes the right to access, right to rectification (correction), right to erasure (deletion), right to restriction,…
Category: U.S.
IRS Wants to Buy Internet Mass Monitoring Tool
Joseph Cox reports: The IRS wants to purchase an internet monitoring tool from a company that has sold products to sections of the U.S. military and the FBI, according to public procurement records. The company, called Team Cymru, provides access to “netflow” data, which can show activity on the wider internet, such as which server communicated with another….
NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules
Thomas Claburn reports: Back in July 2020, then New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act into law, which required the New York Police Department to reveal how it uses surveillance technology and to formulate surveillance policies. The NYPD, however, has rejected 93 percent of the advice…
FTC readies children’s privacy case against Amazon
Josh Sisco reports: The Federal Trade Commission is planning to move forward soon with a case against Amazon over alleged privacy violations stemming from the use of children’s data with the company’s Alexa voice assistant, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The antitrust and consumer protection agency has been investigating Amazon on a…