The following was published on December 6, but just came to my attention thanks to a helpful reader. Denis Drew writes: How can TSA administrative regs — composed with delegated Congressional legislative power – overwrite an explicit Congressional prohibition of naked child imaging: a legislative house divided against itself? Said prohibition passed First Amendment muster…
Category: U.S.
Privacy key in repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
From an editorial in Navy Times about the repeal of DADT: …. There will be challenges. About 24 percent of troops say they’d quit or at least consider quitting the service if repeal happens. Still, with leaders seemingly committed, it’s time to figure out how to make this work with minimal disruption. That means focusing…
Review of FTC’s Proposed Privacy Framework – Part 1
Richard L. Santalesa writes: Last week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its anticipated 122-page staff report on Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers (the “Report”), which we covered in brief here immediately following its release. In this part of our review, and in following parts, we…
Harvard Law Students Sue TSA
Jenny Paul and Joey Seiler report: Two Harvard Law students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration that claims the use of “nude body scanners” and new enhanced pat-down techniques at airport security checkpoints are unconstitutional. Jeffrey Redfern ’12 and Anant Pradhan ’12 filed the lawsuit Monday in the District Court of…