Declan McCullagh reports that Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting…
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Privacy missing from Google Books settlement
If Google digitizes the world’s books, how will it keep track of what you read? That’s one of the unanswered questions that librarians and privacy experts are grappling with as Google attempts to settle a long-running lawsuit by publishers and copyright holders and move ahead with its effort to digitize millions of books, known as…
New Maine privacy law goes too far, lawsuit says
The new Maine law intended to protect the personal information of minors, often referred to as the Maine Predatory Marketing Law, is now under legal fire in court. The Portland Press Herald reports: Four groups are mounting a challenge in federal court to a new Maine law that would make it illegal to collect or…
Accused killers won’t get names of nurses at jail, for now
Levi Pulkkinen of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a follow-up to an earlier news story about a nurse’s union seeking an emergency injunction to bar the release of prison nurses’ names to two inmates who had filed for the information under freedom of information law: Following a brief hearing, King County Superior Court Judge Michael Fox…