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Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Washington,
D.C.
http://www.epic.org/alert/epic_alert_1702.html
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Table of Contents
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[1] EPIC Hosts 15th Annual Privacy Coalition Meeting
[2] Worldwide Celebration of International Privacy Day 2010
[3] Experts Urge
U.S. to Ratify Privacy Convention
[4] European Union Rejects U.S. Demands on Body Scanners
[5] EPIC Continues to Fight for the Privacy
Rights of Facebook Users
[6] News in Brief
[7] EPIC Bookstore: "Privacy in Context"
[8] Upcoming Conferences and Events
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[1] EPIC Hosts 15th Annual Privacy Coalition Meeting
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The annual meeting of the Privacy Coalition held in Washington DC on
January 21-23, 2010 hosted discussions among activists, policy
makers,
government decision makers, and federal chief privacy officials.
Congressman Bennie G. Thompson served as the Keynote speaker
at the
dinner held on Thursday evening. At the event Beth Givens, founder and
director of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, was presented
with the EPIC's
U.S. Privacy Champion Award for 2010.
The meeting was an opportunity for members of the Privacy Coalition,
Federal
Chief Privacy Officers, and academics to review the previous
year's most challenging privacy, consumer protection, and civil
liberties
issues. The gathering provided the rare opportunity for
coalition members to be physically in the same location for in-depth
review
of each priorities and to make their best case for the coalition
to sponsor efforts related to their privacy related projects.
The
day-long meeting held on Friday, January 22, included panel
participation by Federal Privacy and Civil Liberties Officers, which
author Bruce Schneier moderated. There was a panel on Privacy
Implications of Biometric Identification Systems, Moderated by
Professor
Anita Allen. Following the government privacy panel, Chip
Pitts, President of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, moderated a
discussion
on Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights with advocate
organizations. In the afternoon, the topics turned to consumer privacy
issues, beginning with a lunch discussion on the cutting-edge privacy
issue of Smart Grid. Following lunch, Privacy Times founder,
Evan
Hendricks, moderated a discussion among consumer advocates on their
list of top issues for 2010. Later that afternoon, privacy
expert,
Chris Wolf, led moderated a discussion on Legislative Staff and Agency
Led Discussion with a panel of legislative experts.
A few of the advocacy groups participating in the meeting included
EPIC, Consumer Federation of American, Consumer Watch Dog, Consumer
Action, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, PrivacyActivism, ACLU,
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, US Bill of Rights
Defense
Committee, Liberty Coalition, the Brennan Center, The American
Bar Association, CyLab Carnegie Mellon University, and the American
Association of Law Libraries.
Federal agency and Hill Committee Staff participation featured panelist
from the Department of Homeland
Security, Transportation Security
Administration, Department of Justice, Office of the Director of
National Intelligence, Bureau
of the Census, Federal Trade Commission,
Federal Communication Commission, House Committee on Homeland Security,
and Congressman
Ed Markey's (Co-Chair of the House Privacy Caucus)
Staff.
The meeting closed on Saturday following a strategy session on the top
issues the coalition will work on for 2010.
Privacy Coalition
http://privacycoalition.org
Agenda
http://epic.org/events/Jan_23_Priv_Coal_Agenda.pdf
Participants
http://epic.org/events/Jan_23_Priv_Coal_Participants.pdf
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[2] Worldwide Celebration of International Privacy Day
2010
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January 28 is International Privacy Day, celebrating
the day that the
first international convention on privacy was signed. The Council of
Europe and the European Commission initiated
this commemoration in
2007. This year marks its fourth edition, and a wide variety of
activities are being held in cities around
the world to underscore the
importance of privacy protections.
In Europe its aim is to give "European citizens an opportunity to
understand what kind of data about them is collected and processed, why
this is done, and what rights they have in respect of such
processing.
It is also an opportunity for them to become more aware of the inherent
risks associated with the unlawful use or clandestine
processing of
their personal data," as noted by the Council of Europe.
A Pecha Kucha night to honor Data Protection day is being
held in
Brussels. The Pecha Kucha, which is Japanese for the sound of
conversation(bla bla or chit-chat), is a series of show-and-tell
presentations by artists, designers and advocates. EPIC Executive
Director, Marc Rotenberg will presenta typical Pecha Kucha series
of 20
images x 20 seconds each on the "Invasion of the Body Scanners."
In the United States, Governors in North Carolina, Arkansas,
Washington, Maryland, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
have declared Data Privacy Day on January 28, and several events
will
be held in different cities in the U.S. and Canada. In Berkeley, the
Federal Trade Commission is hosting a series of roundtable
discussions
on January 28 to explore the privacy challenges posed by the vast array
of 21st century technology and business practices
that collect and use
consumer data. Lillie Coney, EPIC Associate Director, will present the
Privacy implications of social networks.
This year, Mexico joins the celebration for the second time. The
Federal Institute for Access to Public Information and the House
of
Representatives are organizing the seminar "Constitutional amendments
to data protection: Challenges and legal views". The event
seeks to
promote the discussion of an enforceable data protection law for
Mexico. Katitza Rodriguez, EPIC International Privacy Project
Director,
will present the comparative international legal aspects of privacy and
data protection.
For Civil Society Groups the
key objective on January 28 is to motivate
people to action - not just by checking their privacy settings,
shredding old bank statements
or installing a browser extension, but by
raising awareness about why meaningful regulation of privacy and
enforcement of privacy
rights is key for the protection of the ability
to control personal data.
For instance, the supporters of the Madrid are urging
countries:
"that have not ratified Council of Europe Convention 108 together with
the Protocol of 2001 to do so as expeditiously
as possible;"
"that have not yet established a comprehensive framework for privacy
protection and an independent data protection
authority to do so as
expeditiously as possible;"
"that have established legal frameworks for privacy protection to
ensure effective
implementation and enforcement, and to cooperate at
the international and regional level."
On International Privacy Day, EPIC will
honor eminent Australian Jurist
Michael Kirby for his role in the development of the OECD Privacy
Guidelines of 1980. EPIC describes
the Honorable Kirby as "The father
of the OECD Privacy Guidelines." Previous recipients of the EPIC
International Privacy Champion
Award include Italian jurist Professor
Stefano Rodota.
EPIC, Council of Europe Privacy Convention
http://epic.org/privacy/intl/coeconvention/
Council of Europe Privacy Convention
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/108.htm
Council of Europe Data Protection Day
http://www.epic.org/redirect/012810councilofeurope.html
International Privacy Day Campaign (with activities)
http://www.epic.org/redirect/012810intlprivacyday.html
The annual Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection
http://www.cpdpconferences.org/index.html
PechaKucha Night
http://pechakucha.architempo.net/
Data Privacy Day is January 28, 2010
http://dataprivacyday2010.org/
FTC Roundtable: Exploring Privacy
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/privacyroundtables/
Madrid Privacy Declaration
http://www.thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration
Think Privacy
http://www.dataprotectionday.eu/
EPIC, "Privacy and Human Rights"
http://epic.org/phr06/
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[3] Experts Urge U.S. to Ratify Privacy Convention
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Twenty-nine experts in privacy and technology have sent a letter to
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to urge that the United
States
begin the process of ratification of the Council of Europe Convention
on Privacy. More than forty countries have ratified
the Convention,
which was opened for signature on January 28, 1981.
The convention, which has been adopted by both members and non-members
of the Council of Europe, aims to ensure that the rights of the
individual would be protected even as governments and private
organizations
took advantage of new systems of automation. Accordingly,
the letter states that "Just as communications networks can be used for
good and ill, so too can computer technology."
That outlook is reflected in Secretary Clinton's recent remarks on
Internet Freedom,
in which she stated that "Just as steel can be used
to build hospitals or machine guns, or nuclear power can either
energize a city
or destroy it, modern information networks and the
technologies they support can be harnessed for good or for ill."
Secretary Clinton
also stressed the importance of freedom of expression
and privacy protection as fundamental rights in the digital age and
noted the
ongoing importance of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
The letter also calls attention to the Madrid Declaration, in which
civil society groups have urged countries that have not yet ratified
the Council of Europe Convention to do so as soon as possible.
The
signatories state, "privacy is a fundamental human right. In the 21st
century, it may become one of the most critical human rights
of all."
Council of Europe, Convention on Privacy
http://www.epic.org/redirect/012810councilofeuropeconv.html
Secretary Clinton's Remarks
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135519.htm
Madrid Declaration Website
http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
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[4] European Union Rejects U.S. Demands on Body Scanners
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EU President Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba announced on January
21, 2010 that
European countries would not rush to install body scanners as the
United States has urged. He said that studies must
be conducted to
determine whether the devices "are effective, do not harm health, and
do not violate privacy." The European position
in the current dispute
is strengthened by the recent adoption of the Lisbon Treaty and the
entry into force of the Charter of Fundamental
Rights.
The European countries have agreed that they will adopt a unified
position on the body scanner proposal. Spain, which is
the current
European Union president and therefore sets the agenda for the EU, is
calling for a unified position in order to avoid
inconsistent screening
practices.
Importantly, many senior officials in the European Commission have
indicated opposition to the
scanners. The incoming justice commissioner
of the European Commission, Viviane Reding, stated that "Europe's need
for security cannot
justify an invasion of privacy. Our citizens are
not objects: they are human beings."
Similarly, Germany will not install the scanners
because privacy
concerns have not been addressed. France will only equip certain
airports with scanners. British Conservative member
of parliament, who
used to work for QinetiQ, a scanning technology firm, has stated that
scanners would probably not have detected
the explosives reportedly
strapped to Abdulmutallab's leg. "In all the testing that we undertook,
it was unlikely that it would have
picked up the current explosive
devices being used by Al Qaeda," Ben Wallace said of the scanners.
Website for EU President Alfredo
Perez Rubalcaba
http://www.eu2010.es/en/index.html
Lisbon Treaty
http://europa.eu/lisbon_treaty/index_en.htm
Charter of Fundamental Rights
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/default_en.htm
EPIC: Whole Body Imaging
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/
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[5] EPIC Continues to Fight for the Privacy Rights of Facebook
Users
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The FTC has sent a letter to EPIC regarding the December
2009
complaint, submitted by privacy organizations, about Facebook's recent
changes to user privacy settings. The changes were made
in response to
a complaint by students at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public
Interest Clinic and the Canadian Privacy Commissioner.
In the letter,
the Bureau of Consumer Protection Director states that the complaint
"raises issues of particular interest" for the
FTC. Further, Vladeck
stresses the importance of providing "transparency about how this data
is being handled, maintained, shared,
and protected . . . " The
Commission, however, cannot confirm or deny whether an investigation
has been launched.
The letter came
one day before EPIC filed a supplemental complaint
regarding Facebook's privacy practices. The new complaint provides
additional
evidence of Facebook's unfair and deceptive trade practices
relating to Facebook CEO's public statements, the most recent version
of the Facebook for iPhone application, Facebook Connect, and
"web-suicide" applications.
Facebook is also being met with opposition
regarding a recent
settlement involving Facebook Beacon. EPIC and other privacy groups
sent a letter to the federal judge overseeing
the class-action
settlement against Facebook in California, opposing the settlement as
unfair and unreasonable.
As proposed, the
settlement does not provide any benefit for Facebook
users whose private data was illegally exposed by Facebook "Beacon."
Instead,
the deal would create a new "privacy foundation" subject to
Facebook's influence. Fair settlements typically provide compensation
to class members or a remedy that addresses the underlying harm, which
in this case was a violation of federal privacy law. The letter
from
EPIC proposes alternatives that would enable stronger privacy
safeguards for Facebook users in the future.
FTC, Letter to EPIC
regarding the December 2009 Facebook Complaint
http://epic.org/privacy/inrefacebook/Facebook_Vladeck_Letter.pdf
CIPPIC, Complaint to Canadian Privacy Commissioner Re:Facebook Privacy
http://www.cippic.ca/uploads/CIPPICFacebookComplaint_29May08.pdf
EPIC, et al., FTC Complaint, In re Facebook
http://www.epic.org/privacy/inrefacebook/EPIC-FacebookComplaint.pdf
EPIC, et al., FTC Supplemental Complaint, In re Facebook
http://www.epic.org/privacy/inrefacebook/EPIC_Facebook_Supp.pdf
EPIC, et al., Letter in Opposition to Facebook Beacon Settlement
http://epic.org/privacy/facebook/EPIC_Beacon_Letter.pdf
Facebook, Beacon Class Settlement
http://www.beaconclasssettlement.com/
EPIC: Facebook Privacy
http://epic.org/privacy/facebook/
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[6] News in Brief
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EPIC Hosts Press Event Regarding Whole Body Imaging
Leading privacy law scholars Anita Allen and Jeffrey Rosen, acclaimed
author
and surveillance authority James Bamford, world renowned
security technologist Bruce Schneier, and EPIC President Marc Rotenberg
participated in a National Press Club event, on Monday, January 25,
2010. The speakers engaged in a panel discussion on "Body Scanners
and
Privacy." The event took place as Congress began its second week of
hearings to determine whether to deploy full body imaging
devices in US
airports.
EPIC: Whole Body Imaging Technology
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/
Event Materials and Handouts on Whole Body Imaging
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/#handouts
EPIC: Events
http://epic.org/events/
Inspector General Funds Egregious Breakdown in FBI Oversight
The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector
General has issued a
report on the FBI's use of "exigent letters" and other means to obtain
telephone records from three unnamed
phone companies. The 300-page
report concludes that many of the FBI's practices "violated FBI
guidelines, Department policy," and
the Electronic Communications
Privacy Act. The report also found that "the FBI sought and acquired
reporters' telephone toll billing
records and calling activity
information" through improper means. The report concludes that "the
FBI's initial attempts at corrective
action were seriously deficient,
ill-conceived, and poorly executed" and makes several recommendations
for improvement. In a 2007
letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee,
EPIC recommended that the FBI's National Security Letter authority be
repealed.
DOJ:
Office of the Inspector General
http://www.justice.gov/oig/
DOJ, Report on Exigent Letters
http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s1001r.pdf
EPIC, Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
http://epic.org/privacy/pdf/nsl_letter.pdf EPIC:
National Security Letters
http://epic.org/privacy/nsl/
EPIC Urges Increased Privacy for "Global Entry" Registered Traveler Program
EPIC filed comments with the US Customs and Border
Protection, urging
the agency to "to revise its establishment of the Global Entry program
and to reconsider the privacy and security
implications of the
program." Customs and Border Protection proposed to make permanent the
Global Entry program, under which pre-registered
international
travelers can bypass conventional security lines by scanning their
passports and fingerprints at a kiosk, answering
customs declaration
questions, and then presenting a receipt to Customs officials. EPIC
urged Customs and Border Protection to ensure
that Global Entry
complied with the Privacy Act and to conduct a separate Privacy Impact
Assessment. Those measures are particularly
pressing in light of recent
problems, including data breaches and bankruptcy, experienced by
"Clear," a similar registered traveler
program. In 2005, EPIC testified
before Congress that the absence of Privacy Act safeguards for
registered traveler programs would
jeopardize air traveler privacy and
security.
EPIC, Comments to Customs and Border Protection
http://www.epic.org/redirect/012810epiccomments.html
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Global Entry Website
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/trusted_traveler/global_entry/
Customs and Border Protection, Press Release
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1258657984894.shtm
EPIC: Global Entry
http://epic.org/privacy/global_entry/default.html
EPIC: Air Travel Privacy
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/
EPIC, Congressional Testimony Regarding Registered Traveler
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/rt_test_110305.pdf
Microsoft to Delete Search Data After 6 Months
In order to comply with European privacy law, Microsoft announced that
it will
delete user search data, including IP addresses, after six
months. In 2008 the Article 29 Working Group, which includes data
protection
officials across the European Union, met with Microsoft,
Google, and Yahoo to discuss their data retention practices. Following
a
determination that records are subject to European privacy law, the
Article 29 Working Group asked the search engine companies to
eliminate
online user data, including IP addresses and search queries, after six
months. Microsoft will redesign its new Bing search
engine to comply
with the request. It is unclear at this point what Google and Yahoo
will do. In early 2008, EPIC urged the European
Parliament to protect
the privacy of search histories.
Microsoft Announcement Regarding Search Data Deletion
http://www.epic.org/redirect/012810microsoftannouncement.html
Article 29 Working Group Website
http://www.epic.org/redirect/012810art29.html
Article 29 Working Group Determination
http://www.epic.org/redirect/012810art29wkinggrp.html
EPIC, Submission to European Parliament
http://epic.org/privacy/ftc/google/EPIC_LIBE_Submission.pdf
EPIC: Search Engine Privacy
http://epic.org/privacy/search_engine/
EPIC Supports Privacy in Cloud Computing and Social Networking Services
EPIC submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission
prior to the
agency's second privacy roundtable. EPIC warned of the ongoing privacy
risks associated with cloud computing and social
networking privacy,
highlighting the Google cloud computing complaint and Facebook privacy
complaint filed by EPIC in 2009. The comments
note that the Commission
has failed to take any meaningful action with respect to either
complaint, demonstrating the Commission's
"lack of leadership and
technical expertise." EPIC's comments also draw attention to the
success of international privacy initiatives,
in hopes of encouraging
the Commission to take meaningful action to protect American consumers.
EPIC, Comment to the Federal Trade
Commission
http://epic.org/privacy/ftc/EPIC_FTC_Comment.pdf
Federal Trade Commission Privacy Roundtables Page
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/privacyroundtables/
EPIC, Federal Trade Commission Complaint in In re Google
http://epic.org/privacy/cloudcomputing/google/ftc031709.pdf
EPIC, Federal Trade Commission Complaint in In re Facebook
http://www.epic.org/privacy/inrefacebook/EPIC-FacebookComplaint.pdf
EPIC: Cloud Computing
http://epic.org/privacy/cloudcomputing/
EPIC: Social Networking Privacy
http://epic.org/privacy/socialnet/
Congress Begins Hearings on the "Trouser Bomber" and Intelligence Reform
Several Senate committees have opened hearings on
airline security and
the intelligence failure on December 25. Questions about privacy and
civil liberties have been raised frequently
by senators. Specifically,
senators have asked about the adequacy of privacy safeguards for the
body scanners, database profiling,
biometric identification, and the
status of the President's Civil Liberties and Privacy Oversight Board.
According to documents obtained
by EPIC through a Freedom of
Information Act request, the body scanners ordered by the TSA are
designed to store and record images of American air travelers.
President's Civil
Liberties and Privacy Oversight Board
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34385.pdf
EPIC: Biometric Identifiers
http://epic.org/privacy/biometrics/
TSA, Procurement Specification for Whole Body Imaging Machines
http://epic.org/open_gov/foia/TSA_Procurement_Specs.pdf
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[7] EPIC Bookstore: "Privacy in Context"
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In Helen Nissenbaum's "Privacy in Context", Nissenbaum seeks to define
privacy in terms of contextual integrity. According to Nissenbaum,
"privacy is neither a right to secrecy nor a right to control but a
right to appropriate flow of personal information." The framework
of
contextual integrity is described as being made up of social contexts
and informational norms that affect personal information
flow, such as
transmission, communication, and dissemination. Throughout the book,
Nissenbaum explains the state of information
technology today, why a
new framework is needed, and how this contextual integrity framework is
applied.
Part I begins with a quote by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis:
"instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the
sacred
precincts of the private and domestic life; and numerous
mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that 'what is
whispered
in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house-tops.'" In
the 1890's, photography was the looming privacy threat in America.
Today, so much has changed, with more privacy-invasive technologies
emerging each year. Nissenbaum sets out to describe these evolving
technologies and discuss the privacy risks and harms associated with
them, from the more obvious online monitoring to perhaps the
less-known
radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. She writes of
datamining, Google Earth, and social networks - technologies
and
practices that have recently surfaced, and surely were not anticipated
by Warren and Brandeis over a century ago.
In Part II, Nissenbaum describes the value of privacy today, and
discusses current theoretical frameworks that help to define and
understand
the value and risks associated with privacy. She breaks up
the theories into two categories: theories that "allow morally
legitimate
privacy claims to range over all information, delineating
the extent and boundaries . . . in terms of their capacity to promote
other
significant moral and political values," and "theories that
attribute the moral legitimacy of privacy to privacy's capacity to
protect
a private zone for humans." In Chapter 6, Nissenbaum describes
the shortcomings of these theoretical frameworks, and seeks to propose
the contextual integrity framework as a way to fill the gaps left by
other approaches.
Part III introduces the fundamentals of contextual integrity and
applies the framework to help define our modern understanding of
privacy.
Nissenbaum uses this framework as a model for "understanding
and predicting reactions to alterations in information practices."
To
illustrate this idea and the value of informational norms, Nissenbaum
uses real events. For example, she uses the Clinton-Lewinsky
scandal
to describe how Linda Tripp violated informational norms of friendship
by recording intimate phone conversations without
permission and
transmitting these recordings to third parties. According to
Nissenbaum, "that she betrayed a friendship seems to
be an irrevocable
judgment readily modeled in the framework of contextual integrity."
She explains that according to the contextual
integrity framework,
people are bothered not by the fact that information practices take
away control over information or expose
secret or private information,
but rather that they violate context-relative informational norms. It
is these norms that "preserve
the integrity of the social contexts in
which we live our lives, and they support and promote the ends,
purposes, and values around
which these contexts are oriented."
Nissenbaum concludes that while we do have a moral and political right
to privacy, it is not
privacy as traditionally understood - controlling
one's personal information or having the access to one's information.
Rather,
it is "a right to live in a world in which our expectations
about the flow of personal information are . . . met, . . . [shaped by]
a general confidence in the mutual support these flows accord to key
organizing principles of social life, including moral and political
ones." This framework anticipates the constantly changing attitudes
and expectations regarding privacy, along with the constantly
evolving
technologies that continue to pose new threats to privacy.
--Kim Nguyen
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EPIC Publications:
"Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws 2008," edited by
Harry A. Hammitt, Marc Rotenberg, John A. Verdi, and Mark S.
Zaid
(EPIC 2008). Price: $60.
http://epic.org/bookstore/foia2008/
Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws is the most
comprehensive, authoritative discussion of the federal open access
laws. This updated version includes new material regarding the
substantial FOIA amendments enacted on December 31, 2007. Many of
the
recent amendments are effective as of December 31, 2008. The standard
reference work includes in-depth analysis of litigation
under Freedom
of Information Act, Privacy Act, Federal Advisory Committee Act,
Government in the Sunshine Act. The fully updated 2008 volume is the
24th edition of
the manual that lawyers, journalists and researchers
have relied on for more than 25 years.
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"Information
Privacy Law: Cases and Materials, Second Edition" Daniel
J. Solove, Marc Rotenberg, and Paul Schwartz. (Aspen 2005). Price: $98.
http://www.epic.org/redirect/aspen_ipl_casebook.html
This clear, comprehensive introduction to the field of information
privacy law allows instructors to enliven their teaching of fundamental
concepts by addressing both enduring and emerging controversies. The
Second Edition addresses numerous rapidly developing areas of
privacy
law, including: identity theft, government data mining and electronic
surveillance law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act,
intelligence sharing, RFID tags, GPS, spyware, web bugs, and more.
Information Privacy Law, Second Edition, builds a cohesive
foundation
for an exciting course in this rapidly evolving area of law.
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"Privacy & Human Rights
2006: An International Survey of Privacy Laws
and Developments" (EPIC 2007). Price: $75.
http://www.epic.org/phr06/
This annual report by EPIC and Privacy International provides an
overview of key privacy topics and reviews the state of privacy
in over
75 countries around the world. The report outlines legal protections,
new challenges, and important issues and events relating
to privacy.
Privacy & Human Rights 2006 is the most comprehensive report on privacy
and data protection ever published.
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"The Public Voice WSIS Sourcebook: Perspectives on the World Summit on
the Information Society" (EPIC 2004). Price: $40.
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/pvsourcebook
This resource promotes a dialogue on the issues, the outcomes, and the
process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
This
reference guide provides the official UN documents, regional and
issue-oriented perspectives, and recommendations and proposals
for
future action, as well as a useful list of resources and contacts for
individuals and organizations that wish to become more
involved in the
WSIS process.
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"The Privacy Law Sourcebook 2004: United States Law, International
Law,
and Recent Developments," Marc Rotenberg, editor (EPIC 2005). Price:
$40.
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/pls2004/
The Privacy Law Sourcebook, which has been called the "Physician's Desk
Reference" of the privacy world, is the leading resource
for students,
attorneys, researchers, and journalists interested in pursuing privacy
law in the United States and around the world.
It includes the full
texts of major privacy laws and directives such as the Fair Credit
Reporting Act, the Privacy Act, and the OECD
Privacy Guidelines, as
well as an up-to-date section on recent developments. New materials
include the APEC Privacy Framework, the
Video Voyeurism Prevention Act,
and the CAN-SPAM Act.
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"Filters and Freedom 2.0: Free Speech Perspectives
on Internet Content
Controls" (EPIC 2001). Price: $20.
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/filters2.0
A collection of essays, studies, and critiques of Internet content
filtering. These papers are instrumental in explaining why filtering
threatens free expression.
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EPIC publications and other books on privacy, open government, free
expression, crypto and governance can be ordered at:
EPIC Bookstore
http://www.epic.org/bookstore
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EPIC also publishes EPIC FOIA Notes, which provides brief summaries of
interesting documents
obtained from government agencies under the
Freedom of Information Act.
Subscribe to EPIC FOIA Notes at:
https:/mailman.epic.org/mailman/listinfo/foia_notes
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[8] Upcoming Conferences and Events
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"Computers, Privacy,
and Data Protection: An Element of Choice,"
Brussels, Belgium, January 29-30, 2010.
For more information:
http://www.cpdpconferences.org/
"RSA 2010"
San Francisco, March 1-5, 2010.
For more information:
http://www.rsaconference.com/2010/usa/
"7th Conference on Privacy and Public Access to Court Records"
Williamsburg, VA, March 3-5, 2010.
For more information:
http://www.legaltechcenter.net/default.aspx
"Association for Practical and Professional Ethics"
Cincinnati,OH, March 5, 2010.
For more information:
http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/annualmeeting.html
"Privacy 2010"
Stanford, CA, March 23 - 25, 2010.
For more information:
http://codex.stanford.edu/privacy2010
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