Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, thinks it’s time for a lead privacy regulator in Europe. Writing on his personal blog, Peter uses the current situation of both the Irish Data Protection Commissioner and Germany each investigating Facebook as a case in point. The German regulatory world is a microcosm of the European regulatory world….
Category: U.S.
EPIC FOIA – Documents Shed Further Light on Homeland Security Pursuit of Crowd Surveillance
From EPIC.org: New documents obtained by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act provide further details on a DHS plan to use an multiples surveillance technologies to search people in public spaces. Previous EPIC FOIA work produced records about a similar DHS program, which the government agency subsequently claimed it had cancelled. However, the new documents obtained by EPIC show that the DHS was still…
Nation’s police chiefs adopt drone code of conduct (updated)
Stephen Dinan reports: The nation’s police chiefs have adopted a code of conduct for their use of drones, including letting any images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, be open to inspection by the public, and that the images not be stored unless they are evidence of a crime or part of an ongoing…
Court Dismisses Case Based on State Secrets Privilege
Steven Aftergood writes: A federal court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit which alleged that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had engaged in unlawful surveillance of Muslim residents of southern California. The court granted the Obama Administration’s claim that the state secrets privilege precluded litigation of the case. The plaintiffs in the case contended that the FBI had “conducted…