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1 hr ago | The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog

The 'Problem of Proportionality' in the Debate over Net Neutrality

Last week I commented on a severely one-sided FCC net neutrality hearing that featured a endless parade of horribles being prophesied by virtually every speaker.

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5 hrs ago | Ars Technica

FTC complaint says Facebook's privacy changes are deceptive

Facebook claimed it was doing the world a favor when it updated how the site handles privacy settings earlier this month, but the change has done nothing but get the company in even more hot water.

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Related Topix: Social Software

13 hrs ago | Journal-News

Ohio man faces prison on e-mail spying charge

A northeast Ohio man faces prison time after he used legal software to spy on an unknowing woman's computer activities, accidentally retrieving confidential information from the computer system at the children's hospital where the woman worked.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Avon Lake, OH, Cleveland Metro

17 hrs ago | The Gazette

DNA might help Iowa close criminal cases

Posted on Dec 20, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . Secrets from the grave might help close some unsolved Iowa criminal cases, but collecting DNA samples from homicide victims likely would raise civil liberties concerns.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Iowa, Bloomfield, IA, Davis County, IA

Sun Dec 20, 2009

Millville News

U.S. judge sends disciplinary hearing for N.J. troopers accused of sexual assault back to state court

Rejecting arguments their rights were being violated, a federal judge has handed a sex case involving seven state troopers back to the state for a disciplinary hearing.

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Related Topix: Trenton, NJ, Trenton Metro, Rider University

RSS 2.0 at Harvard Law

MediaBerkman: MediaBerkmana s Top 11 Topics of 2009

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society hosted, partnered on, and generated a heaping helping of fascinating talks and pieces of media in 2009 a ' and tens of thousands of YOU watched, listened, discussed, and linked to our media a ' which just goes to show how big of year its been for internet, society, and technology! In honor of the Berkman ...

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Related Topix: Activism

SeacoastOnline

Tech Talk: New Mass. data privacy law will affect your business in 2010

Over the last year, I have written several columns on information security. If you've been reading this column for a while, you may recall I testified before Congress last spring on this topic, and more recently to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation on the new data privacy laws being enacted in that state.

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Sat Dec 19, 2009

Silver City Sun-News

Real Id rules put on hold

New Mexicans who plan air travel over the holidays don't have to worry about interruptions stemming from a federal ID rule change that had been set to take effect Jan.

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Related Topix: New Mexico, Representative Ben Ray Lujan, US Politics, US News, Senator Tom Udall, Tom Udall, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Jeff Bingaman

The News Tribune

Attorney General Zoeller vows fight over junk faxes, solicitors

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced two new lawsuits against companies sending unsolicited faxes and vowed to enforce what he described as Indiana's "very stringent tele-privacy laws." The new suits were filed against two California companies - Association for Lifestyle Reform and ProStarr Satellite - for allegedly sending unsolicited ...

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Related Topix: Indiana

NetworkWorld

How 'privacy rights' on company phones could backfire

By Paul McNamara on Fri, 12/18/09 - 10:05am. Earlier this week we learned that the Supreme Court is going to decide whether naughty text messages sent by a cop via a taxpayer-funded pager deserved privacy protection or were fair game for the police chief who discovered and disapproved of them.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Fri Dec 18, 2009

MarketWatch

Will regulators zero in on Google buying Yelp?

Google Inc.'s reported plans to acquire local-listings service Yelp may face difficulties, with regulators attuned to the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's established dominance of the Internet-search and advertising markets, observers say.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Yelp, Mountain View, CA, Facebook

WQAD

Officials at suburban Chicago high school blcok story in student paper after privacy concerns

Officials at a suburban Chicago high school have pulled a story from the student newspaper over concerns about an article on prescription drugs.

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Bellingham Herald

Privacy concerns emerge for ORCA card users

Expanded use of a regional transit card in four Puget Sound counties is raising privacy concerns.

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Las Vegas Sun

A lack of urgency: UMC shows lackadaisical attitude toward stunning breach of patient privacy

Officials at University Medical Center, Clark Countya TMs public hospital, were told three weeks ago that at least 71 patientsa TM names, birth dates and Social Security numbers were leaked.

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Related Topix: Las Vegas, NV, Healthcare Law, Law, Clark County, NV

Thu Dec 17, 2009

CIO

Supreme Court to Rule on Employee Privacy

The case in question involves public employees, but the decision could have consequences that reverberate to private organizations as well, and impact efforts to maintain regulatory compliance.

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Related Topix: PC, US News, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Science Daily

Privacy concerns could limit benefits from real-time data analysis

In a "Perspectives" column, Tom M. Mitchell, head of the Machine Learning Department in Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, notes that data-mining techniques, once used for scientific analysis or for detecting potential credit card fraud, increasingly are being applied to personal activities, conversations and movements, such as ...

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Related Topix: Carnegie Mellon University, Science, Computer Science

New York Times

Privacy Group Files Complaint on Facebook Changes

In a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday, a privacy organization is charging that Facebook 's recent changes to its privacy policies constitute "unfair and deceptive trade practices." The Electronic Privacy Information Center , or EPIC, says that Facebook's recent changes "violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, ...

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Related Topix: Social Software, Science / Technology

Security Technology & Design

UK appoints CCTV regulator

The Home Office today unveiled Britain's first CCTV regulator to develop national standards for the use of CCTV cameras in public areas.

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Wed Dec 16, 2009

Slapstick Politics

Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Illegalsa TM Privacy Rightsa "Correctly

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A. Honorable Friends, This evening, two of my honorable friends here at the PPC, Ben DeGrow and El Presidente , have called my attention to the Colorado Supreme Court's decision in The People v. Gutierrez , in which a 4-3 majority ruled that the state violated the 4th Amendment privacy rights of the defendant in ...

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Related Topix: Illegal Immigration, US News, Immigration Reform

NetworkWorld

New laws complicate security efforts in 2010

Regulatory compliance will continue to influence data security projects in 2010, as a slew of security and privacy regulations are due to go into effect.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Burlington, MA, Insurance, Financial Services

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