Emily Steel of the Wall Street Journal previews a House hearing on offline and online data collection and targeted advertising practices: …. In recent years, marketers have grown more adept at culling consumer data from an array of online and offline sources—including real-estate and motor-vehicle records, consumer surveys, credit-card data and logs of Web visitors’…
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EU and US Officials Examine Safe Harbor, Cross Border Data Flow and Privacy
From EPIC.org: Officials from the United States and the European Union are meeting in Washington this week to review “Safe Harbor,” a framework that allows the processing of data on EU citizens by US firms without traditional legal protections. Safe Harbor has been challenged by the European Parliament and questioned by academic experts. The Federal…
Appeals Court, Second Time Around, Dismisses Surveillance Suit
Mike Scarcella reports: Scott Tooley’s contention that the government started secretly watching him and his family members after a conversation he had with a Southwest Airlines employee about post-Sept. 11 security was dealt a severe blow today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The appeals panel, calling the claims in the…
D.C. Circuit Examines Warrantless GPS Surveillance
Mike Scarcella writes: When federal authorities got a warrant to install an electronic tracking device to track a drug suspect, agents acted in an “abundance of caution,” a federal prosecutor said today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where the government is defending its ability to secretly follow suspects without judicial…