Tim Maurer and Garrett Hinck write: In a speech last week, Attorney-General William Barr began again to push for a law that would oblige U.S. businesses to decrypt people’s data if the government told them to. This is far from the first time that U.S. law enforcement officials have demanded such a law. What’s different…
Month: July 2019
Facebook’s Libra Could Aid Law Enforcement
Paul Vigna reports: Lawmakers were up in arms this month about whether Libra, Facebook Inc.’s proposed new cryptocurrency, would be a haven for money launderers and other criminal activities. Facebook, though, says Libra could be a valuable tool for law enforcement, partly because of the vast amounts of information that will be generated about its…
Domestic Batterers Should Be Tracked on a Watch List
From an opinion piece by Misha Valencia: Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is fatally shot by a current or former partner. Intimate partner homicide is one of the leading causes of death for women in the country, with nearly half of all murdered women killed by a partner. But there are…
European Commission Seeking to Fine Spain and Greece for Failing to Transpose Data Protection Rules Into National Law
In other GDPR-related news, Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Tardiness with transposing data protection laws comes with a hefty fine. The European Commission is asking the Court of Justice of the European Union to impose financial sanctions on Greece and Spain for failing to transpose the rules on the Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive…