The Federal Trade Commission and privacy enforcement authorities from 11 countries around the world recently launched the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN), a new network that promotes information sharing and international assistance in enforcement of privacy laws. Today the network unveiled GPEN’s public website, www.privacyenforcement.net. The new website is designed to promote public awareness of the…
Category: U.S.
FBI probes were improper, Justice says
Jerry Markon reports: The FBI improperly opened and extended investigations of some U.S. activist groups and put members of an environmental advocacy organization on a terrorist watch list, even though they were planning nonviolent civil disobedience, the Justice Department said Monday. A report by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine absolved the FBI of the most…
Phone Numbers, E-Mail Addresses, and Metaphor Wars
Julian Sanchez writes: The law normally advances by small and cautious steps—by the gradual extension of established precedents and rules to novel problems and fact patterns. Little wonder, then, that tricky questions of law often amount to conflicts between competing metaphors. Is a hard drive like a closed briefcase whose contents are all fair game for…
Upcoming Congressional Hearings
A flurry of activity in Congress next week on privacy-related issues. In chronological order: Senate Judiciary Committee Full Committee hearing, “The Electronic Communications Privacy Act: Promoting Security and Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age” DATE: September 22, 2010 TIME: 10:00 AM ROOM: Dirksen-226 WEBCAST The Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcommittee of the Senate…