Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
A Consumer Privacy Legislation? A Highly Debated Proposal since 2012 By: Ida Faustine Jacotey http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/technology/obamas-effort-on-consumer-privacy-falls-short-critics-say.html In February 2012, the White House, released “A framework for protecting Privacy and promoting innovation…
Dstillery Tracked 16,000 Iowa Caucus-goers via their phones: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dstillery-iowa-caucus_us_56c12cafe4b08ffac125b591 Facebook faces privacy-related antitrust enforcement in Germany: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/02/facebook-faces-german-antitrust-privacy-probe/ FCC Settles with Verizon over super cookies: http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-pay-1-35m-to-settle-fcc-probe-of-supercookies-1457372226
On Monday, the European Commission issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-US Privacy Shield, and replace the former Safe Harbour framework. The Privacy Shield will not…