By Jim Harper
The Daily Caller reports that Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is planning another effort at Internet regulation—right on the heels of the SOPA/PIPA debacle. The article seems calculated to insinuate that a follow-on to SOPA/PIPA might slip into cybersecurity legislation the Senate plans to take up. Whether that’s in the works or not, I’ll detail here [...]
The Senate’s SOPA Counterattack?: Cybersecurity the Undoing of Privacy is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Jim Harper
…on the Google privacy policy change.
The idea that people should be able to opt out of a company’s privacy policy strikes me as ludicrous.
Plus she embeds a valuable discussion among …
Kashmir Hill Has It Right… is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Jim Harper
Does a more careful reading of the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Jones turn up a lurking victory for the government? Modern media moves so fast that the second-day story happens in the afternoon of the first. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday morning that government agents conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they [...]
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By Jim Harper
The Supreme Court has delivered a big win for privacy in U.S. v. Jones. That’s the case in which government agents placed a GPS device on a car and used it to track a person round-the-clock for four weeks. The question before the Court was whether the government may do this in the absence of [...]
U.S. v. Jones: A Big Privacy Win is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Jim Harper
The Supreme Court has delivered a big win for privacy in U.S. v. Jones. That’s the case in which government agents placed a GPS device on a car and used it to track a person round-the-clock for four weeks. The question before the Court was whether the government may do this in the absence of [...]
U.S. v. Jones: A Big Privacy Win is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Jim Harper
When Senator William Proxmire (D-WI) proposed and passed the Fair Credit Reporting Act forty years ago, he almost certainly believed that the law would fix the problems he cited in introducing it. It hasn’t. The bulk of the difficulties he saw in credit reporting still exist today, at least to hear consumer advocates tell it. [...]
Information Regulation that Hasn’t Worked is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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