Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog reports on the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of those who wanted to keep their signatures on a petition shielded from public scrutiny: By a broad eight-to-one majority in an opinion by the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court today held in Doe v. Reed that signatories of referendum petitions generally…
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EPIC Urges Congress to Reform ECPA, Safeguard Locational Data
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a statement for the record in a hearing on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, (ECPA) “ECPA Reform and the Revolution in Location Based Technologies and Services” before the House Committee on the Judiciary. EPIC recommends that Congress consider the need to protect locational data for users of new communications services….
U.S. Senators Joe Lierberman and Susan Collins addressed misconceptions about the Cybersecurity bill
Ahead of the Thursday, June 24, 2010 mark-up of this critical cybersecurity bill, Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Susan Collins, R-Me., its Ranking Member, have issued the following fact sheet describing the intent and impact of their bipartisan legislation. This document also addresses some misconceptions…
FTC says current privacy laws aren’t ‘working’
Declan McCullagh reports: A Federal Trade Commission representative delivered a stern indictment of current privacy laws on Monday, saying they fail to protect American consumers and instead place too much of a “burden” on them. The existing constellation of privacy laws, which relies heavily on disclosure of data collection and use practices and informed consumer…