Senate panel strengthens e-mail, cloud privacy law [CNET – Declan McCullagh]
“A U.S. Senate panel this morning approved a landmark privacy bill that would curb law enforcement’s warrantless access to the contents of e-mail, private Facebook posts, and other data that Americans store in the cloud.”
- See Also ACLU Lens: Get Off My Cloud! Senate Bill Requires Warrants for Government to Spy on Email, Digital Communications [ACLU – Steve Gosset]
Lawmakers: Lax FAA rules on drone surveillance will put privacy at risk [The Hill – Brendan Sasso]
“Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) slammed the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday for failing to ensure that domestic drones will not invade the privacy of Americans.”
- See Also FAA Plans to Carry Out Privacy Tests in Six Drone “Test Zones” [ACLU– Jay Stanley]
App developers, privacy advocates work out suggestions for policy disclosure [Washington Post – Hayley Tsukayama]
“The App Developers Alliance (ADA), Consumer Action, World Privacy Forum and American Civil Liberties Union will present mock-ups of screens that offer quick-scan information on what data app developers collect and that who else has access to that data. The groups will present their proposal Friday in Washington at a National Telecommunications and Information Administration meeting on app privacy and transparency.”
Ninth Circuit Gives the A-OK For Warrantless Home Video Surveillance [Electronic Frontier Foundation – Hanni Fakhoury]
“Can law enforcement enter your house and use a secret video camera to record the intimate details inside? On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unfortunately answered that question with ‘yes.'”
Privacy groups call for Facebook changes U-turn [BBC]
“Two US privacy groups have asked Facebook to reconsider proposed changes to its terms of service that they say violate commitments to protect users.”
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