Edward Snowden has proposed a new treaty. Here’s why it might or might not take off.
At the Council for Foreign Relations Web site, David Fidler says that Edward Snowden isn’t radical enough. He identifies three problems with the proposal that S…
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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2015
I am heading to (and speaking at) the 25th Anniversary Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) this week over in Alexandria, VA. Looking forward to seeing old fr…
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Google should 'inform more' on right to be forgotten
"And lack of awareness may not be the only reason for the apparently low number of appeals, said Martin Husovec, a Slovak-born assistant professor at the T…
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This Week In Data Collection News, And The Privacy Paradox
""There's a bit of a disconnect between what people say and what they do," says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington wh…
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The Coming Collision Between EU Privacy Regulation And American Free Speech
"Earlier this week, we wrote about the EU Court of Justice's decision that the NSA's surveillance of the internet meant that the EU-US data protect…
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As Safe Harbour ruled invalid, lawmakers reconsider CISA
"Omer Tene, vice president of research and education at the International Association of Privacy, told SCMagazine.com that the Safe Harbour decision would…
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Intermediary Liability and User Content under Europe’s New Data Protection Law
Cross-posted to the Internet Policy Review News & Comments and Inforrm blogs. A big new law is coming, and a lot of companies doing business online aren’t…
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Local Solutions Key for Companies in U.S-EU Privacy Dispute
"But Aleecia McDonald, a privacy expert at Stanford Law School, said the nature of the dispute indicates an overarching political solution might not be as…
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DDoS Attacks Create Smokescreens for Larceny
""Government is always fighting resource and budget issues," observed IAPP Vice President of Research and Education Omer Tene. How government an…
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E.U.'s Sudden Shift on Data Is a Big Headache for Small Marketers
""The big companies have probably been gearing up for this for some time, but for smaller companies, this is, I think, a much greater challenge becaus…
Here’s how the Facebook case has just transformed the surveillance debate
The European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, has just shot down the Safe Harbor, an arrangement between the European Union and the United States allow…
This privacy activist has just won an enormous victory against U.S. surveillance. Here’s how.
The European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, has just ruled that the Safe Harbor, an arrangement between the European Union and the United States allo…