The Death of Secure Flight?
The AP reports that Secure Flight, the elaborate program for using data mining to screen airline passengers, has been abandoned. Ed Felton says it best:
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Why You Should Teach Information Privacy Law
Since now is the time that many new law professors are being hired, I thought I’d re-post an earlier post about teaching information privacy law. When new law professors are hired, there is often a lot of flexibility in what courses they can teach. While the law school will typically want a newly-hired professor to teach one […]
A Translation of Gonzales’s Answers at the NSA Surveillance Hearings
The NSA surveillance hearings began today with the testimony of Attorney General Gonzales. To save you the time to read through the extensive transcript (here and here), I thought I’d translate some of Gonzales’s remarks for you:
Wikipedia, Politics, and Anonymity Don’t Mix
The Washington Post has an article today about the recent instances of employees of various politicians editing Wikipedia entries:
Update on the Kansas Teen Sex Medical Records Case
A few days ago, I blogged about a case in Kansas where the Attorney General interpreted a law prohibiting sex with minors under the age of 16 as requiring doctors to report any sexual activity by people under 16 to the state authorities. Recently, the Kansas Supreme Court issued an opinion, Alpha Medical Clinic v. Anderson, strongly limiting […]
Privacy of Internet Search Records
Here are some recent interesting links about the privacy of Internet search records: Check out Patriot Search for a laugh. It’s a new search engine where your results are reported directly to the government: “Our mission is to provide the best possible search engine to you while at the same time, making sure the government is informed […]
Can Doctors Be Required to Tell the Government About Teen Sex?
A rather remarkable case is beginning in Wichita, Kansas. From the Wichita Eagle:
Identity Theft: Increasingly an Affliction of the Young
New statistics from the FTC on identity theft illustrate some interesting trends. From the AP:
The ChoicePoint Settlement
Recently, the FTC announced a settlement in its complaint against the data broker ChoicePoint for a data security breach that resulted in over 160,000 people’s personal information being sold to identity thieves. According to the Washington Post:
Gonzales’s Tortured Logic on NSA Surveillance
Attorney General Gozales brought out some new arguments in defense of the warrantless NSA surveillance program. He should have kept these arguments in the bag, as they are flatly wrong. For example, according to the AP: