Category: privacy

Privacy Bill A Week: “Own Your Own Data Act” (S. 806) and the “Designing Accounting Safeguards To Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data” (S. 1951).

This week, we will look at a pair of bills referenced by Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-ID) at a recent hearing on data ownership that take a different approach to privacy. In short, these bills would approach the issues presented by mass collection and use of consumer data by … Continue reading Privacy Bill A Week: “Own Your Own Data Act” (S. 806) and the “Designing Accounting Safeguards To Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data” (S. 1951). →

Further Reading

“How to report on a data breach” – Columbia Journalism Review. A veteran tech journalist who has written about a number of the recent, major data breaches (Target, MySpace, Equifax, LinkedIn, eBay, JP Morgan Chase, Yahoo, and Sony) offers tips to other journalists that can serve those interested in the policy side of these issues, … Continue reading Further Reading →

Wyden Revises and Introduces Privacy Bill

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) formally introduced his bill, renamed as the “Mind Your Own Business Act,” that is based substantially on the discussion draft released last fall, the “Consumer Data Protection Act.” Wyden also released a one-page summary. As noted in our analysis of Wyden’s discussion draft: This bill would vastly expand the power of … Continue reading Wyden Revises and Introduces Privacy Bill →

Spotlight: A Privacy Bill A Week: “Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act” (H.R. 2013)

For this week, let’s examine a House bill, the “Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act” (H.R. 2013) which is sponsored by Suzan DelBene (D-WA) and cosponsored by 22 other House Democrats. DelBene worked in Washington state’s technology sector before transitioning to public service, including a stint with Microsoft. At present, this is not a … Continue reading Spotlight: A Privacy Bill A Week: “Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act” (H.R. 2013) →

Further Reading

“China Masters Political Propaganda for the Instagram Age“ – The New York Times. The regime in Beijing has learned more effective techniques to inculcate patriotism and belief in the Communist Party than their forebearers used, including prompting studios to make more appealing films about recent Chinese history, coopting popular cartoons, and developing apps. Of course, … Continue reading Further Reading →

Spotlight: A Privacy Bill A Week

Last week, we took a look at Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden's (D-OR) “Consumer Data Protection Act” discussion draft, not to be confused with Senator Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) “Consumer Data Protection Act” (S. 2188), a data security and breach notification bill. As discussed at some length, in short, Wyden’s bill would vastly expand … Continue reading Spotlight: A Privacy Bill A Week →

EU’s Highest Court Rules Against Facebook

In seeming contradiction of its recent decision in Google v. CNIL, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or Court) has ruled that European Union (EU) law allows EU nations to order platforms the host content like in Facebook in this case to remove illegal content or any identical or equivalent illegal content … Continue reading EU’s Highest Court Rules Against Facebook →

Spotlight: A Privacy Bill A Week: “Consumer Data Protection Act”

Last week, we dived into Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-NV) “Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance Privacy Act” (DATA Privacy Act) (S. 583). Of course, Cortez Masto served as the attorney general of Nevada for eight years prior to succeeding former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), and this bill demonstrates her background as her state’s top … Continue reading Spotlight: A Privacy Bill A Week: “Consumer Data Protection Act” →

“Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance Privacy Act” (DATA Privacy Act) (S. 583)

Last week, we spent a bit of time looking at the “Privacy Bill of Rights Act” (S. 1214), the only bill to get an A in the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s report on privacy bills, and likely outside the realm of the politically possible at present. This week, we will examine Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s … Continue reading “Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance Privacy Act” (DATA Privacy Act) (S. 583) →