Chris Strohm reports: Legislation to give Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and Google Inc. (GOOG) legal protection for sharing cyber-attack information with the U.S. government has stalled after leaks about spy programs showed the companies are already turning over data. Lawmakers have stopped advancing cybersecurity legislation until at least September as they gather more information about the National Security Agency…
Month: June 2013
FTC’s Brill Calls for Congress to Legislate New Data Privacy, Stuns Marketers
Kate Kaye writes that marketers were caught off-guard by FTC Commissioner Julie Brill’s “Reclaim Your Name” initiative, described in her keynote address as CFP this week: The Direct Marketing Association was caught off guard by Commissioner Brill’s announcement. “DMA has been in discussion with Commissioner Brill regarding ways to increase transparency in the ‘data broker’…
What Is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)? Finding Common Ground in the EU and US
Daniel Solove and Paul Schwartz write: We recently released a draft of our new essay, Reconciling Personal Information in the European Union and the United States, and we want to highlight some of its main points here. The privacy law of the United States (US) and European Union (EU) differs in many fundamental ways, greatly complicating…
Facebook breach affected more than Facebook acknowledged – researchers
Jam Kotenko reports: When Facebook came clean about a recent security bug that caused the exposure of 6 million users’ personal information to their contacts, they softened the blow by saying that the effect of the bug was probably minimal, since the people who likely received their friends’ data could have already had access to the contact…