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5 Jun 2014, 9:06 am by Robert D. Fram
  It concludes that there is no insurmountable constitutional infirmity to a robust Public Advocate that can litigate on behalf of individuals subject to surveillance requests. [1] The statistics referenced in this article are drawn from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 7:30 am by Katitza Rodriguez and Nadia Kayyali
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has issued orders that allow the NSA to share raw data—without personally identifying information stripped out— with the FBI, CIA, and the National Counterterrorism Center. 15. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 12:28 am by Katitza Rodriguez
"  Joana Varon, Center for Technology and Society (Brazil):"Snowden has provided us with the most powerful tool of our current era: information. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 1:38 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The groups—Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the National Security Archive—all experts in FOIA litigation, recommend a common set of practices to ensure agencies protect the public’s right to know. [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 7:15 pm by Kevin Chan
  The voluntary sharing of this information is allowed for under Canada’s private-sector privacy legislation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). [read post]
31 May 2014, 6:19 pm by Michael Froomkin
I was recently asked to contribute to a set of essays being assembled in honor of the Electronic Privacy Information Center‘s 20th anniversary. [read post]
29 May 2014, 7:31 am by aallwash
The authors of the model regulations—Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the National Security Archive—are experts in FOIA litigation. [read post]
15 May 2014, 6:03 pm by Katitza Rodriguez
"The US government had built a system that has as its goal the complete elimination of electronic privacy worldwide” Glenn Greenwald, No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 3:16 pm by Kimberly Carlson
Sincerely, Access Advocacy for Principled Action in Government AGEIA DENSI Alternative Informatics Association Amnesty International Article 19 Asociación de Internautas Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Benetech Big Brother Watch Bits of Freedom Breadboard Society Bytes for All, Pakistan Center for Constitutional Rights Center for Democracy & Technology Center for Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information (CELE), Palermo… [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 7:11 pm by Martin Husovec
This means that providers of electronic communication will soon be free of any legal obligation to store data about users. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 4:23 pm by Dena Feldman
In the meantime, covered entities and business associates should take measures to ensure that they have adequate procedures in place, particularly encryption of all computers, laptops, and mobile devices, to protect the integrity of electronic protected health information. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 12:57 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  OCR’s investigation concluded that Concentra previously had recognized in multiple risk analyses that a lack of encryption on its laptops, desktop computers, medical equipment, tablets and other devices containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) was a critical risk. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 4:52 am by Terry Hart
“‘Google’s influence in Washington has chilled a necessary and overdue policy discussion about the impact of the Internet’s largest firm on the future of the Internet,’ said Marc Rotenberg, a Georgetown University law professor who runs the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a watchdog and research organization. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 11:02 am by Dave Maass and Nadia Kayyali
To make matters worse, the report found that fusion centers violated civil liberties and produced little information of any use. [read post]
During the long, hard fight to bring the outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) into the 21st century, advocates have run into the most unlikely of opponents: the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 7:53 am by aallwash
By Elizabeth Holland With the House proposal to update the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) garnering 200 co-sponsors this week, the members of the Digital Fourth coalition — the ACLU, Heritage Action, Americans for Tax Reform, and the Center for Democracy & Technology — sent a letter to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) calling out the agency’s “contradictory or misleading statements” about its work to oppose… [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 7:00 am by Robert Chesney
The following is audio of the conference last week in Austin hosted by the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint venture of the Strauss Center and Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 11:14 am by Nadia Kayyali
A series of public records act requests in Massachusetts showed: "Officers monitor demonstrations, track the beliefs and internal dynamics of activist groups, and document this information with misleading criminal labels in searchable and possibly widely-shared electronic reports." [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 4:00 am by Terry Hart
Second, the copying does not occur on premises “operated and managed by the defendants but rather in a person’s home, a location in which individual privacy is constitutionally protected and over which defendants have no control. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 11:33 pm by Katitza Rodriguez
A serious discussion is needed about the policy implications of covert surveillance programs in Colombia and their impact on citizens’ privacy, right of association, and fundamental freedoms. [read post]