Privacy News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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.