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15 May 2010, 11:27 am
Dr. Guillaume Aucher of the University of Luxembourg Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication, Professor Guido Boella of Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Informatica , and Professor Dr. Leon van der Torre of the University of Luxembourg Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication, presented Privacy Regulations in Dynamic Epistemic Deontic Logic, at NMR 2010: The 13th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, held 14-16 May 2010, at Sutton Place, Toronto,… [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 8:14 am
Various news outlets are reporting that Google “fans” in Germany have been egging the roughly 3% of houses whose inhabitants have chosen to opt out of Google’s Street View mapping feature.
Why?
Apparently the vandals left notes saying “Google is cool.” So maybe this is just a “how dare you question anything Google?” protest.
But more likely it is something more. Jeff Jarvis on Buzz Machine recently labeled opting out of Street View the equivalent of “digital desecration,” saying… [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 11:00 am
In a discussion with The New York Times, Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Chairman Jon Leibowitz, and chief of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, David Vladeck, indicated that Internet publishers and advertisers can expect the FTC to play a more active role in safeguarding consumer privacy. Chairman Leibowitz highlighted that, in the past, the FTC’s approach to privacy has focused on consumer notice and consent, and whether consumers were harmed. From the FTC’s perspective,… [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 12:16 pm
This post was written by Cynthia O'Donoghue.
The Article 29 Working Party has again told two online advertising groups, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (“IAB”) and the European Advertising Standards Alliance (“EASA”), that their proposed code of conduct for data tracking was still unsuitable as it failed to satisfy the requirements of EU privacy laws, and suggested adoption of the standards unveiled by the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”). The proposed code had already been… [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 12:06 pm
On March 16, 2011, U.S. Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence Strickling called on Congress to enact robust, baseline legislation to “reform consumer data privacy in the Internet economy.” Speaking before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Assistant Secretary Strickling emphasized the Department of Commerce’s support for a legislative proposal that would adopt many of the recommendations of the “Green Paper,”… [read post]
Perlingeiro: Free Access to Information, Technological Innovations and the Publishing of Legal Cases
12 Jan 2013, 6:32 pm
Ricardo Perlingeiro of Universidade Federal Fluminense has published O livre acesso à informação, as inovações tecnológicas e a publicidade processual (Free Access to Information, Technological Innovations and the Publishing of Legal Cases), Revista de Processo, 203, 149-180 (2012).
Here is the abstract:
O texto questiona o sistema jurídico brasileiro que, pautado em uma concepção extrema do princípio da publicidade no direito… [read post]
1 Nov 2012, 5:30 am
Have you received this letter? If you did, it is part of Attorney General Kamala D. Harris efforts to formally notify scores of mobile application developers and companies that they are not in compliance with one aspect of California's privacy law. Letters are being sent out to up to 100 non-compliant apps at this time, starting with those who have the most popular apps available on mobile platforms. Even if you have not received the letter, you may want to think about whether you need to… [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 5:49 am
This post was written by Cynthia O'Donoghue.
On 27 February 2012, with the support of Europe’s largest mobile operators, the GSMA published a set of global Privacy Design Guidelines for Mobile Application Development. These guidelines come just days after the largest US based App providers, including Google, Apple and Amazon, agreed to legally enforceable privacy standards.
The Mobile App Privacy Design Guidelines are aimed at all companies who are responsible for collecting and processing… [read post]
1 Jul 2009, 12:17 pm
Massachusetts Senate Bill No. 173 (PDF file) introduced this year, would amend M.G.L. 93H and effectively water down the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation's (OCABR) authority on a few fronts. I'm taking each one up in a separate post and today, I'll address the first proposed change.
If SB 173 is enacted, businesses would not have to comply with any state regulations with stricter standards than federal law. While businesses need to comply with federal law, this should not stop… [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 2:02 pm
Along with a lot of other privacy folks, I have a lot of concerns about the cybersecurity legislation moving through Congress. I had an op-ed in The Hill yesterday going through some of the concerns, notably the problems with the over broad ”information sharing” provisions.
Writing the op-ed, though, prompted me to highlight one positive step that should happen in the course of the cybersecurity debate. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was designed in large part to address… [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 12:19 pm
Two companies that violated consumer privacy were Google and Facebook
In April, President Obama announced new guidelines for Internet companies (such as Google, Apple and Facebook) that would limit what consumer data the company can capture from consumers and keep. Consumer privacy has been a hot issue, especially after high-profile companies like Apple and Google became embroiled in controversy surrounding online user data.
President Obama developed this initiative after it was learned that Apple… [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 9:09 am
This post was written by Nancy E. Bonifant and Brad M. Rostolsky.
On March 13, 2012, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced the first enforcement action resulting from a breach self-report required by HITECH’s Breach Notification Rule. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) has agreed to pay HHS $1,500,000 to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and has entered into a corrective action plan to address gaps in its HIPAA compliance program.
The… [read post]
31 Aug 2010, 9:59 am
For the 10th-anniversary issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s The Chronicle Review, the editors asked several scholars for answers to the question: “What will be the defining idea of the coming decade, and why?”
Here’s the list of the people they asked: Jaron Lanier, Daniel J. Solove, Peter Singer, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Gwenda Kaczor, Jonathan Haidt, Parker J. Palmer, Camille Paglia, Yi-Fu Tuan, Michael Glenwood Gibbs, Daniel J. Cohen, James Elkins, Mary Beard, Linda K. Kerber,… [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 3:56 pm
Hot on the trail of the FTC’s recent report on privacy, the GSMA, the London-based industry association representing over 800 cellular network operators worldwide, released its “high-level” Mobile Privacy Principles (the “Principles”) on January 27, 2011. The Principles were released with the goal of creating a “robust and effective framework for the protection of privacy” to promote users’ confidence and trust in mobile applications. These Principles encourage a “privacy by… [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 10:32 am
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's Keynote from our 2012 Symposium, The Dead Past. Chief Judge Kozinski discusses the privacy implications of our increasingly digitized world and our role as a society in shaping the law: I must start out with a confession: When it comes to technology, I'm what you might call a troglodyte. I don't own a Kindle or an iPad or an iPhone or a Blackberry. I don't have an avatar or even voicemail. I don't text. I don't reject… [read post]
14 Sep 2012, 10:04 am
According to The Associated Press, Twitter has complied with a judge's order to hand over the Tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protestor. Twitter was ordered by Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. to turn over the information by today or face steep fines if it refused to do so.On April 23, 2012, I stated that, "Once a Tweet is public to the entire world you don't have an expectation of privacy even if the Tweet has been deleted. Former Congressman Anthony Weiner learned the hard way (no pun intended)… [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 9:07 am
On August 10, 2010, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed the Employee Credit Privacy Act, which prohibits most Illinois employers from inquiring about an applicant’s or employee’s credit history or using an individual’s credit history as a basis for an employment decision. The definition of “employer” under the Act exempts banks, insurance companies, law enforcement agencies, debt collectors and state and local government agencies that require the use of credit history.The Act does not… [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 10:38 am
On July 14, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee convened a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade (chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA)), and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology (chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR)), to launch a comprehensive review of Internet privacy. The series of hearings began with testimony from officials representing three agencies with jurisdiction over consumer privacy issues: FTC Commissioner… [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 6:34 am
According to Reuters, the European Union has sent Google a letter demanding changes to Google's new privacy policy to better protect the personal data of its users. The Guardian is reporting that Google may be told on Tuesday to revisit the controversial changes introduced in March.
On January 24, 2012, Google announced that as of March 1, 2012, it would revamp its privacy policies. At the time of its announcement, Google stated that it had more than 70 privacy policies and that it is… [read post]
11 Oct 2012, 5:00 am
Cholla Trail Landmark – Camelback Mountain by Dru Bloomfield – At Home in Scottsdale
Last week Pete Kosednar was hiking on Camelback Mountain when he saw a woman on the trail who didn’t have her dog on a leash. He turned on his video camera and asked her is she knew that her dog was supposed to be leashed. She didn’t appreciate being filmed and reacted by swearing at him and hitting him. Check out the video for yourself.
Was Pete Kosednar wrong to film this woman? No! She… [read post]