Privacy News

The Location Forum's Privacy Council released the public version of their Location Data Privacy: Guidelines, Assessment & Recommendations today.

A proposal to ban employers and schools from demanding access to personal online accounts has been scrapped.

With her mandate nearing its end at the end of the year, Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is again calling for stronger enforcement powers to help keep companies from straying from or disregarding Canadian privacy law.

Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef.

The uproar over government searches of media phone records should not obscure the deeper problem - the law's failure to protect the privacy of all of us in the digital age.

A Calgary-area company violated the province's privacy law by collecting and selling a truck driver's work history - including drug test results and the reasons she was fired from jobs - to prospective employers without her consent.

With everyone from wireless carriers to the latest and greatest smartphone application tracking user behavior and trying to sell the data, mobile is proving to be a treasure trove of customer information.

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The site has turned its young founder Mark Zuckerberg into one of the world's richest men and boasts more than one billion active members.

The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office is investigating the question of whether the body of Mendocino County 5th District Supervisor Dan Hamburg's wife was buried legally, Sheriff Tom Allman said Tuesday.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office and Connecticut's top prosecutor are working privately with state lawmakers to craft legislation that would block the public release of certain records from the Newtown school shooting and possibly other crimes.

Facebook Inc can certainly be known as a social network that has often advocated for social causes and social activism, and it has been a valuable tool in many of those areas, including calls for blood donation in the wake of natural disasters in other parts of the world and calls against censorship and for freedom of expression in repressive ... (more)

A bill crafted privately by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office, Connecticut's top prosecutor and legislative leaders would require the written consent of family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims before certain records concerning the shooting may be publicly released.

But we found one critical piece of information that owners are leaving behind, and it could be used against car owners.

The Shawano County Sheriff's Department says a 75-year-old Gillett man died after the car he was riding in smashed into a tree in Bonduel.

Not assisting or protecting victims of violence is a cost for society. New rules to be adopted in the Parliament this week will allow women assaulted in one country to be equally protected when they travel elsewhere in the Union.

Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits.

Three healthcare organizations are defending the federal health IT booster programs against calls from GOP senators who want a "reboot." Six U.S. senators who last month criticized the health information technology efforts of the Obama administration had asked for comments on issues raised in their 28-page white paper , and they received several of ... (more)

A Snyderville Basin development that maintains a rare policy allowing bicyclists onto its private roads will stop doing so next week, indicating that there are increased safety concerns as construction continues.

Abstract: In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument.