An opinion piece by Leslie Harris of CDT appeared on ABC. Among Harris’s recommendations for updating existing privacy laws: A core principle of an updated privacy law is that personal information stored in the cloud should have the same protections as information stored on an individual’s computer. The government should be required to obtain a…
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Obama’s cyber plan raises privacy hackles
Andy Greenberg of Forbes discusses the initial concerns and reactions of privacy advocates to Obama’s cybersecurity plan. Concerns kicked into higher gear last week with news about NSA involvement in monitoring government traffic on private sectors and the Einstein 3 program. Greenberg reports: While the concerns over privacy and the NSA are valid, they could…
Highlights of proposed Canadian spam law
The Canadian House of Commons in April introduced a bill to create the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) (ECPA)—Canada’s version of the U.S. CAN-SPAM legislation, with some significant differences. The bill seeks not only to cut down on spam but also addresses phishing, spyware and unsolicited text messages. It also lays out penalties for spamming,…
Warrantless searches: MySpace, Yahoo and ATT
An email purporting to be from Mike Duffey, Special Agent, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Computer Crime Center, to the ICAC Task Force mailing list was posted on Wikileaks.org. The email is reportedly from June 2009. The full header is not provided: From: Duffey, Mike Sent: None To: ICAC.Task.Force Subject: RE: Att refuses legal process…