Eric Chabrow reports: As the federal government readies the third iteration of Einstein, privacy concerns over the intrusion detection system were voiced at a Senate hearing on Tuesday. Philip Reitinger, Department of Homeland Security deputy undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, told the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland…
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Lawmakers probe deeper into privacy
Kim Hart reports on today’s joint hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Commerce, Trade, and Commerce Protection and Communications, Technology, and the Internet on data collection online and offline: …. Jennifer Barrett, an executive with Acxiom, a marketing company, said the firm could collect 1,500 possible data points about individual consumers, such…
Protecting Offline Privacy
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’…
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…