Google Glass Privacy Questioned by International Data Protection Authorities
IBTimes.co.uk
Commissioner Stoddart said of the head-worn device, which features a discreet, voice-activated video camera: "Google Glass raises significant privacy issues and it is disappointing that Google has not engaged more meaningfully with data protection ...

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Key figures identities' hidden in Morecambe Bay report
Health Service Journal
Fears over breaching data protection laws prevented Care Quality Commission employees from being named in the “damning” report of the regulation of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation, the organisation has said. The CQC registered the ...

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Government to consult on whether to make imprisonment potential sanction for ...
Out-Law.com
"It is the Government's intention to conduct a public consultation on the full range of Lord Justice Leveson's data protection proposals, including on section 77 of the CJIA, which will seek views on their impact and how they might be approached," it added.

Social networking and online forums – privacy obligations
Lexology (registration)
Last month, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (UK ICO) published guidance on the application of the Data Protection Act 1998 (UK DPA) to social networking sites and online forums. Although the guidance is specific to UK privacy legislation, the ...

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Global data privacy leaders: let us play with Google Glass
Wired.co.uk
Ten international data protection authorities have issued an open letter to Google CEO Larry Page appealing for more information on how Glass will follow privacy laws. In the letter -- signed by authorities representing Canada (and separately its districts ...

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Everybody talks: data protection and social media
Lexology (registration)
Responding to this, the Information Commissioner's Office recently issued new guidance on the application of the Data Protection Act to social networking. This article briefly considers the extent to which the “domestic purposes” exemption relieves the general ...

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Deadline for compliance with updated COPPA rules draws near
Lexology (registration)
The July 1, 2013, deadline for complying with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) updated regulations implementing its Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA Rule) is around the corner, as discussed in our post here on the FTC's denial of ...

Supreme Court Denies Leave In Takeda Canada Inc. v. Minister of Health ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The data protection regulations were enacted to comply with Canada's obligations under Article 1711 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, 1992, 32 ILM 296 ("NAFTA") and paragraph 3 of Article 39 in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of ...

Securing e-voting for company's staff representatives elections in France
Lexology (registration)
However, e-voting can facilitate electoral fraud or data protection breaches. The process has thus come under scrutiny by the French data protection authorities (the CNIL), to ensure that the system used for e-voting guarantees the positive identification of the ...

Authorities In Ten Countries Ask Larry Page Privacy Questions Regarding ...
Fast Company
In it, they ask how the technology complies with data protection laws, what the privacy safeguards are, what information it collects and how Google uses it. They have not gone as far as Las Vegas, however, which has banned the device outright at its casinos.

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Time to modernize online privacy
Newnan Times-Herald
The reason is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Originally intended to protect — not violate — the privacy of our digital communications, this act set standards for government access to private information (such as emails, private photos, ...

Books Your Kid Might Give Up Video Games To Read
WYPR
GHARA: Yes, absolutely. We are targeted towards elementary and middle school children, so our site is COPPA compliant, which is Children's Online Privacy Protection Act regulations. MARTIN: Okay. But what do kids like about it? Let's talk about the fun ...

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Bipartisan Group of Senators Joins Push to End Broad Dragnet, Collection of ...
PoliticalNews.me (press release)
This straightforward change to the PATRIOT Act would protect the privacy rights of Americans while still ensuring that the federal government has the tools it needs to protect the country from terrorism and espionage. For years, the two senators have sought ...

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Mobile Apps Drawing Increased Regulatory Scrutiny
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Indeed, the FTC threatened to "vigorously" enforce the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"), which generally prohibits the collection of a child's "personal information" without parental consent, to ensure that the app industry complies ...

Brad Cummings | Add another to the 'Conservatarian Movement'
The Courier-Journal
It wasn't but a few months ago I felt completely at ease with the Patriot Act and its tangled web of protections for the American people. While I'm no fan of big government, on matters of protecting our well-being, I was OK with them having some leeway when ...

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Congress moves to limit NSA data collection
Summit County Citizens Voice
The proposed legislation would restrict the federal government's ability under the Patriot Act to collect information on Americans who are not connected to an ongoing investigation. The bill also requires that secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to ...

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The NSA, phone "meta-data" and the Patriot Act.
Alpena News (blog)
It's time to fix the Patriot Act. Since the disclosure of phone data collection and Internet data mining by the NSA, Pres. Obama has said he'd be willing to review the law, adopted amid the hysteria immediately following 9/11. It might be that as our lawmakers ...

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NSA Hearing By the Numbers
Bayoubuzz
1) NSA Only Uses Section 215 of Patriot Act to Obtain Phone records. NSA Director Keith Alexander, responding to questions about the kinds of business records the agency obtains using this power granted by the Patriot Act, said that the agency only uses it ...

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Hannity gets Sensenbrenner on his show to prove h...
The Global Dispatch
Of course when Hannity refers to the “liberal” website, he is talking about Media Matters, who put together a wonderful video montage of Hannity–then and now– concerning NSA surveillance and the Patriot Act. In the interview, Hannity tells the congressman, ...

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Don't mess with Texas email: State law ends some warrantless email searches
NBCNews.com (blog)
It's permitted by the Stored Communications Act of 1986, which is part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. This part of the law only makes sense to people who recall the days of computer time sharing, when users at terminals remotely connected to ...

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The NSA Hearing, by the Numbers
Bayoubuzz
1) NSA Only Uses Section 215 of Patriot Act to Obtain Phone records. NSA Director Keith Alexander, responding to questions about the kinds of business records the agency obtains using this power granted by the Patriot Act, said that the agency only uses it ...

Legislation Introduced to Limit NSA Surveillance
FedSmith.com
H.R. 2399, the Limiting Internet and Blanket Electronic Review of Telecommunications and Email Act (LIBERT-E Act), restricts the federal government's ability under the Patriot Act to collect information on Americans who are not connected to an ongoing ...

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congressmen Amash, Conyers introduce bill to restrict government snooping
Detroit Free Press
U.S. Reps. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, and John Conyers, D-Detroit, late Monday introduced a bill they say would restrict the government's authority under the Patriot Act to collect information on Americans unconnected to any ongoing investigation.

Prism: how can this level of state surveillance be legal?
The Guardian
First, there is Article 8 of the European convention on human rights, incorporated into domestic law through provisions in the Human Rights Act 1998. Article 8 recognises that all human beings enjoy a fundamental right to privacy. This right certainly extends to ...

Texas Passes Strict New Email Privacy Law
Techlicious (blog)
This standard was set by the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a bill written when most Americans – senators and congressmen included – had no real access to email or desire to ever use it. Because HB 2268 is a state law, only Texans ...

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NSA and The Endangered 4th Amendment
Texas GOP Vote
Nevertheless, the NSA Verizon order demonstrates how the government uses Section 215 of the Patriot Act to trounce the Constitution. Indeed, the order references the highly-controversial section in the very first line. The ACLU has come to the conclusion ...

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FBI Driver's License Photo Searches Raise Privacy Questions
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
That revelation was made Monday by privacy rights groups Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). "Through a Freedom of Information Act request, EPIC obtained a number of agreements between the FBI and state DMVs," according to a statement ...

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International Gem Tower NY Hosts TransGuardian Patriot Act Seminar for ...
PR.com (press release)
TransGuardian will hold regularly scheduled Patriot Act Seminars henceforth, supporting gem and jewelry dealers with an economical, efficient, and informative tool to comply with anti-money-laundering laws and pass IRS audits successfully.

We should have known
Petoskey News-Review
The Patriot Act reminds me of naming a street in a housing development Oak Ridge Drive when all the oaks have been cut down to make way for houses. The Patriot Act isn't about patriots, it's about trying to find traitors, terrorists and those who would do us ...

Slovakia: new data protection regulation – overview of main changes
Lexology (registration)
Effective from 1 July 2013, the rules governing data processing in Slovakia will change substantially due to adoption of a new Data Protection Act No. 122/2013 Coll. ("New DPA"). On the one hand, the changes introduced by the New DPA in-troduce a more ...

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EDITORIAL: Right to privacy under assault
Gaston Gazette
Brandeis and Warren were responding to media and technological developments they contended infringed on the right to privacy. They felt laws needed to change along with the world, to preserve the right. We wonder what they would think about two major ...

Using CCTV - what farmers need to know
FarmersWeekly
New technology has made it easier than ever to set up camera surveillance, but the rules around data protection and human rights are much more complex. Laura Thomas from Birketts LLP sheds some light on the most common questions about using CCTV ...

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FALCONSTOR SOFTWARE, INC. : Network World Asia Names FalconStor CDP ...
4-traders (press release)
Melville, NY, June 18, 2013 - FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection, today announced that its FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solution has been recognized as the winner in the Backup and ...

StorTech achieves Symantec Master Specialisation status
ITWeb
StorTech today proudly announced it has achieved four Symantec Master Specialisations in the areas of data protection, storage management, high availability, archiving and e-discovery. The Symantec Master Specialisation recognises partners which exhibit ...

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Data recovery software drives storage market growth
Kroll Ontrack
Commenting on the findings, Eric Sheppard, research director of Storage Software at IDC, said demand was strongest for data protection and recovery software as well as storage and device management software. "This was driven by a broad need for data ...

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SMEs Putting Larger Businesses' Security at Risk Owing to Lack of Data ...
InformationWeek India
"It's good business sense for larger companies to ask whether their suppliers have a data protection partner and an information security system in place - not only to prevent sensitive information being lost by a third party but also because the financial and ...

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Paul Maxon: Is it legal for the NSA to spy on us?
The Daily Camera
Supporters of domestic spying have pointed to the Patriot Act and to a 1979 Supreme Court case, Smith v. Maryland, as giving the NSA legal authority for routinely collecting the cell phone records of virtually every American, regardless of whether they are ...

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NSA appears less intrusive than alleged
Roanoke Times
I've been listening to testimony and statements by government officials regarding the Patriot Act and current questions of government snooping on American citizens. Two officials explained the telephone controversy last week. Robert Mueller, director of the ...

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Information rights conundrum for regulators
Legalbrief (subscription)
The ability of regulators to 'uphold information rights' would be impacted by burdensome requirements placed on them by planned reforms to EU data protection laws, the UK's Information Commissioner is quoted as saying in an Out-Law.com report. In a letter ...

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How will history judge nation's response to terror?
Denver Post
Last year, Udall and Wyden wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking the administration to release the FISA court's interpretation of parts of the Patriot Act. They contend most Americans would be "stunned" to learn how the court has interpreted ...

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Can America balance security, democracy and privacy?
Albany Times Union
Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, warned that the American people "will be extremely surprised when they learn how the Patriot Act is secretly being interpreted." Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, we know. And, yes, we ...

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Hannity: I Am Not An NSA Hypocrite
News Hounds
James Sensenbrenner, author of the PATRIOT Act, to thread the needle for him and argue that George W. Bush's NSA data mining without a FISA court approval was legal whereas President Obama's data mining with FISA court approval is not. Therefore ...

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7 things you need to know about South Africa's new data protection laws
Memeburn
South Africa is now putting the finishing touches on its first comprehensive data protection laws, aligned closely with those currently under debate in Europe. The proposed European laws give online consumers the right to withhold personal information while ...

Sweden bans Google Apps
Spatial Source
Sweden's Data Protection Authority has issued a decision that prohibits the nation's public sector bodies from using the cloud service Google Apps, according to Simon Davies at privacysurgeon.org. The ruling isn't actually related to the fallout from the NSA ...

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Perry J. Mitchell: Tweak to guard privacy needed in NSA procedures
The News Journal
Recent disclosures of the National Security Agency trolling of phone records and other items were hardly a new development in the implementing of the Patriot Act, but new details have nevertheless emerged. Two kinds of surveillance programs have been ...

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Tim Rutten: Domestic spying rages unchecked in post-9/11 world
Long Beach Press-Telegram
The Obama administration's domestic spying is being done under authority created by Section 215 of the Patriot Act. If you'd like to weigh and debate the legality of the government's actions, it might be helpful to know precisely what the scope of that authority ...

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Supreme Court further limits privacy rights
Times-Georgian
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling on a case that pitted modern law enforcement tools versus ancient privacy rights. In Maryland v. King, the Court held that police can collect DNA from people arrested but not yet convicted of serious crimes.

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Killer Apps: Questions the NSA Chief Should Be Forced to Answer
Foreign Policy (blog)
The Intelligence Community collects millions of phone records under section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows the government to ask a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA court to order a business to hand over customer records to federal ...

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Davis Wright Tremaine | Deadline for Compliance with Updated COPPA Rules ...
Linex Legal (registration) (press release)
The July 1, 2013, deadline for complying with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) updated regulations implementing its Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA Rule) is around the corner, as discussed in our post here on the FTC's denial of ...

Safeguarding Brand Reputation In Social Media
Corporate Counsel
As of July 13, 2013, the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule will prohibit use of social media plug-ins on children's sites, or knowing use of same in connection with children under 13 years of age. Similarly, online behavioral ...

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