The Homeland Security Department is updating and expanding its record collection to include new categories of personal information on all employees, contractors and volunteers who regularly need access to DHS facilities. The new categories of information include maiden name, mother’s maiden name, clearance level, identifying physical information, financial history, duty date and weapons-bearer designation, states…
Bachmann gets help with the form
Jake Sherman’s blog over on The Wall Street Journal has an interesting tidbit on Congresswoman Michele Bachman’s concerns over completing the 2010 census. Apparently, Will Caskey, president of Chicago’s Third Coast Research (a Democratic opposition research firm), completed his own census form for Bachmann based on earlier questionnaires and Google and public records. You can…
Online behavioral advertising principles
A group of the nation’s largest media and marketing trade associations today released self-regulatory principles to protect consumer privacy in ad-supported interactive media that will require advertisers and Web sites to clearly inform consumers about data collection practices and enable them to exercise control over that information. This unprecedented collaboration represents the entire marketing-media industry…
Lawsuit against Jefferson County Public Schools
On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court limited the use of strip searches in the public schools, two young women filed an action in Jefferson County Court against a local middle school and several of its employees for using “grossly intrusive” methods to discover an alleged cache of marijuana. They were allegedly forced…