The New York State Bar Association Monday became the latest bar group to protest new Federal Trade Commission rules requiring lawyers to become involved in preventing identity theft, calling the move unauthorized, unnecessary and destructive to the attorney-client relationship. The State Bar’s objections follow those submitted last week by the American Bar Association and the…
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Banks: All your cellphone are belong to us
I was grumbling at a privacy conference about my bank’s privacy policy and that it seemed impossible to get a bank to truly delete records and take back your data from affiliates if you no longer had an account. Why should we be contacted in perpetuity if we are no longer customers? In response to…
No joy for Rx data miners this week
In a second blow to big Pharma and data miners, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to grant an injunction blocking Vermont’s Prescription Data Mining Law from taking effect tomorrow, July 1. The decision, announced the same day that the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to New Hampshire’s prescription data mining…
Players’ Privacy Law Is Brought Into Question
Universities that deny requests for records about athletes may be interpreting too broadly a federal education law that protects the privacy of students’ academic records, a federal education official said Monday. The official, Paul Gammill, said the Department of Education was taking a closer look at how universities carried out the privacy law, known as…