The day before President Obama signed a 4-year extension of three key Patriot Act provisions (New York Times), several Democratic Senators expressed concern over the Justice Department’s interpretation of the Act (New York Times). During debate on the Act’s reauthorization, Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, and Mark Udall, a Colorado [...]
CNN reports that on April 12, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and John Kerry (D-MA) introduced legislation that would create a “Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights” in the United States. Link to Text of the Bill. The crux of the legislation forces internet companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and others to [...]
Google recently settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges of “deceptive privacy practices” relating to its controversial social networking “Buzz” feature. The settlement between Google and the F.T.C.—first of its kind—requires Google to initiate a “privacy program” under which it must submit to regular privacy audits for 20 years and accept fines for future privacy violations. The F.T.C. hopes that this settlement will serve as an example and lead to the adoption of the practices articulated in it throughout the web to protect users’ privacy.
This comic is part of a collection of comedic takes on airport security accompanying MSNBC’s announcement of new scanners to be used by the Transportation Security Administration. Unfortunately, for many people affected by the Agency’s policies, the procedures TSA has used recently are not particularly amusing. Until the new scanners [...]
By Daniel Nazar As a nation, America lacks strong privacy protections. While we live in a country proud of its constitutionally guaranteed rights, it wasn’t clear until the 2003 Lawrence decision that privacy was protected enough to prevent states from criminalizing some forms of consensual sex in the privacy of [...]
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