Daniel Castro provides yeoman service by digging into privacy policies and tracking used by the Obama and Romney campaign web sites and mobile apps. Here’s a snippet from his comparison analysis: Methods of Tracking Organizations routinely use information to track how users interact with a website or other digital media. The Romney for President…
Cyber bill shouldn’t gut private contracts
Berin Szoka & Ryan Radia write: Days before August recess, Senate Democrats are scrambling to pass legislation creating a new federal bureaucracy to set supposedly “voluntary” standards for cybersecurity. The bill, spearheaded by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), also gives companies sweeping immunity from being sued for a range of actions aimed at countering cyber threats. While Senate…
Critics urge Congress to undo Supreme Court privacy decision
From Legal Times: A panel of lawyers urged Congress Tuesday to adopt legislation that would undo the Supreme Court’s decision in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper, which found in March that someone whose medical information was shared by government agencies could not recover emotional damages. In a wide-ranging discussion on the status of the federal government’s…
Burglar returns family’s stolen goods and apologizes for privacy invasion
Wow. The same reader who started off my day with the yucky Jon Davler lawsuit just redeemed himself by sending me a link to a story in the National Post about a burglar’s remorse. Jake Edmiston reports that the burglar came back and left an apology letter with $50.00 to cover damages to the screen…