Struan Robertson of Out-Law.com has an editorial piece on how the fate of online advertising cookies in the UK is tied to a file-sharing bill that has as yet to be resolved: Visitors to websites in Europe may soon face a barrage of pop-ups that seek their consent to internet cookies. Bizarrely, the plan to…
Who’d release private tax data? A Norwegian would
Ian MacDougall of Associated Press reports: It’s the moment nosy Norwegian neighbors have been waiting for — the release of official records showing the annual income and overall wealth of nearly every taxpayer in the Scandinavian country. In a move that would be unthinkable elsewhere, tax authorities in Norway have issued the “skatteliste,” or “tax…
Medill Case: Are Student Journalists Protected?
Dan Fletcher of Time writes about a case reported here earlier this week: Northwestern University is dealing with a class project that may have become too successful. From 2003 to 2006, students at the university’s Medill School of Journalism investigated the evidence surrounding the murder conviction of Anthony McKinney, who was sentenced to life in…
Privacy and civil liberties: Where’s the watchdog?
Alan Charles Raul is a a lawyer in Washington, and was vice chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from 2006 to 2008. He wrote an OpEd in the Washington Post that begins: Assuming the executive branch is still fighting terrorists as fiercely as necessary to protect Americans, the need for oversight on…