In honor of Data Protection Day (tomorrow, January 28) and its “Think Privacy” theme, let’s turn our attention to a few current efforts to bring legislated privacy requirements into the 21st century. In Europe, privacy watchers…
The Supreme Court last week agreed to hear arguments in a case on employee privacy and the extent to which government agencies can monitor the content of personal communications made by their employees while using government-owned…
Legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week (H.R. 2221, the Data Accountability and Trust Act) includes provisions both for national standards on data breach notifications and adding new responsibilities and consumer empowerment protections to…
Among the latest unauthorized disclosures of personal information making headlines is the admission last week by T-Mobile that thousands of its British customers had essentially become pawns in a “black market” for mobile service subscriber information…
While affected Connecticut residents and authorities are understandably upset about the recently reported loss by regional health plan provider Health Net of personal information on all 446,000 Connecticut customers served by the plan, the six-month delay…
In another example of stronger individual-level privacy protections in the European Community compared to those in the United States, the EU Council this week approved a law that requires online users to be asked for explicit…
As noted in this space last week, based on recent activity in the Senate and similar if less immediate legislative proposals in the House of Representatives, it seems possible that Congress will move ahead with enactment…
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