Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work., has an OpEd in Washington Examiner that is somewhat disturbing, because even allowing for bias, if two courts really ruled that unions can get away with posting workers’ Social Security numbers online or disseminating SSN, that’s just plain unhelpful on so many levels. Mark writes, in…
Programming note, while I think of it…
I’m in an area expected to be hit by Sandy. We’ve been warned we may be without power for 7-10 days. Lovely. So if this blog suddenly stops updating on or after Monday, figure I’ll be back when I can…
Privacy litigation: get ready for an avalanche in Europe
Peter Fleischer writes that we should expect to see more lawsuits in Europe when new privacy regulations come into effect. Until now, most DPA fines or enforcement actions have not been challenged in the courts and most privacy or data breaches do not result in instant class-action lawsuits. All this will change, however, he writes:…
Yahoo! offers paternalistic crap excuse for ignoring IE 10 default DNT
Well, okay, that wasn’t exactly Yahoo!’s blog headline, but in today’s episode of “Rationalization 101, the Sequel,” Yahoo! explains why it will ignore IE 10’s default Do Not Track: Yahoo! has been working with our partners in the Internet industry to come up with a standard that allows users to opt out of certain website…