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ACLU Finds Explosion in DOJ Electronic Surveillance

09/28/2012 - In between 2009 and 2011, the ACLU finds the Department of Justice communication intercepts have increased 64 percent.
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FTC Settles with Companies for Spying on Rental Computers

09/27/2012 - The FTC has come to an agreement with seven computer rental companies and a computer software company for allegedly spying on rental customers.
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U.S. Groups Back Strong E.U. Privacy Proposal

09/06/2012 - Twenty-two U.S. privacy and consumer groups have written a letter to the European Parliament supporting a strong new European Union data protection law.
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Twitter Appeals Ruling on Providing Protester’s Information

08/30/2012 - Twitter earlier this week appealed a judge’s order requiring the company to turn over tweets and other information of an Occupy Wall Street protester.
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Court Rules Video Privacy Act Applies Online

08/23/2012 - A Northern California court has ruled that the Video Privacy Protection Act, passed in 1988, applies to online streaming video companies just as it has to older brick-and-mortar video stores.
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Government Finalizes Privacy Settlement with Facebook

08/13/2012 - The FTC has finalized a settlement with Facebook over charges that the social media giant deceived the public by telling them they could keep their Facebook information private and then disseminating that information.
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Screen Scraping Security

08/07/2012 - Companies that use scanning tools to search for data must be careful to avoid violating privacy laws.
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Lawmakers Query Data Brokers on Privacy

07/26/2012 - A bipartisan group of lawmakers have sent letters to nine of the country’s largest data aggregating companies, asking them questions about how they collect, use, and sell consumer data to third parties.
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Lawmakers Consider the Security and Civil Liberty Implications of Domestic Drones

07/19/2012 - Lawmakers Thursday debated the costs and benefits of integrating unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones, into the national airspace, particularly whether terrorist groups or other adversaries could use the pilotless aircraft to carry out attacks and whether UAVs threaten American civil liberties.
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AUVSI Releases UAV Code of Conduct

07/02/2012 - The code of conduct includes "common sense" guidelines that require operators be properly trained, follow all federal, state, and local, laws, and respect the privacy of individuals.
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Morning Security Brief: Canada Blocks Foreign Firms From Telecom Overhaul, False Alarms, Facebook Statuses, and More

06/26/2012 - Canada moves to keep foreign companies from participating in its telecom overhaul citing security reasons. Ninety-nine percent of alarms in Las Cruces are false. A lesson in Facebook privacy. And more.
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Spokeo Settles FTC Privacy Case for $800,000

06/12/2012 - Spokeo, an online data broker, has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it marketed and sold data to human resources, background screening, and recruiting industry professionals without protecting consumers as required under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
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Data security

05/29/2012 - A bill (S. 1408) that would impose data security requirements on all government agencies and companies that collect or store personally identifiable information has been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate has announced that it will consider the bill.
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