From EPIC.org: EPIC, along with Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) and other leading privacy and civl liberties organizations, issued a Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Schools. Radio Frequency Identification is an identification tracking technology “designed to monitor physical objects,” such as commercial products, vehicles, and animals. Some school districts are proposing to…
Category: U.S.
U.S. Customs Tracks Millions Of License Plates, Shares Data With Insurance Firms
Andy Greenberg reports: It may come as little surprise that every time you cross the border, cameras record your license plate number and feed it into a database of driver locations. More disturbing, perhaps, is the fact that the government seems to share that automobile surveillance data with an unexpected third party: insurance companies. Documents…
DMA urges Congress to back off on regulating direct marketers
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is dismissing congressional privacy concerns about the mass aggregation of consumer data. A bipartisan group of US House members sent letters to major data brokers about the privacy implications of data aggregation of consumer data. “By combining data from numerous offline and online sources, data brokers have developed hidden dossiers on…
Police Chiefs Issue Recommendations on Drones; A Look At How They Measure Up
Jay Stanley of the ACLU has a thoughtful commentary on the code of conduct for drone use, recently promulgated by the association for police chiefs. You can read Jay’s analysis here. Like me, he was pleased to see some very strong privacy-protective recommendations, but a voluntary code of conduct does not have the force of…