Lee Tien and Seth Schoen comment: The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace” (NSTIC). In previous iterations, the project was known as the “National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions” and emphasized, reasonably, the private sector’s development of technologies to secure sensitive online transactions….
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Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
Ray Sanchez reports on a case reported previously on PogoWasRight.org as well as other similar cases where people have been arrested for videotaping police in the performance of their public duties: …. Arrests such as Graber’s are becoming more common along with the proliferation of portable video cameras and cell-phone recorders. Videos of alleged police…
New bill renews Internet privacy fight
Declan McCullagh writes: American businesses weren’t very happy about a privacy bill that Rep. Rick Boucher announced in May. The Interactive Advertising Bureau, for instance, said the Virginia Democrat’s draft legislation would have “major” effects on legitimate business practices. Well, if they disliked the Boucher bill, they’re really going to loathe a new Democratic proposal…
Rep. Rush unveils privacy bill
Gautham Nagesh reports: Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) will unveil a consumer privacy bill on Monday that would force companies to obtain customers’ consent before sharing their personal information with third parties. The Best Practices Act of 2010 would apply to both online and offline companies that collect personally identifiable data from customers such as their…