Articles by Luke Stark

Today’s news roundup: Google continues to run afoul of European antitrust regulators. A newly-declassified FISA Court judgement from November ruled that “backdoor” warrantless email searches are legal under the Constitution. Microsoft has sued the US Department of Justice over ECPA gag orders.…

Facebook files a patent for identifying cameras through the vagaries of their hardware profiles. The ECJ Advocat General rules that the US/EU data “safe harbor” agreement fail to meet European data protection standards.  …

Hi all – if anyone’s interested, the (perhaps too cryptic) slides which accompanied my talk last week are available below. Many thanks for everyone’s feedback – more is certainly welcome! PRGPresentation…

Courtesy of Salon‘s Andrew Leonard: “Let’s file this one under the category of things we were reasonably sure were happening already, but are still greatly annoyed to have confirmed. New York City, reports Kashmir Hall in Forbes, has been tracking the movements of cars equipped with E-ZPass RFID tags all over the city — not just at the toll booths for which New York drivers presumably purchased their E-ZPasses to get through.…

location white paper…

NYU/Princeton Conference on Mobile and Location Privacy: A Technology and Policy Dialog Date: Friday, April 13, 2012 Time: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Lipton Hall, 108 West 3rd Street [between Sullivan & MacDougal Streets], New York University School of Law, NYC Co-sponsored by the New York University Information Law Institute and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, with generous support from Microsoft.…

From Prof. Rubinstein… BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION Docket No. 120214135-2135-01 Multistakeholder Process To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Codes of Conduct Request for Comments ________________________________________________________________________ COMMENTS OF PROFESSOR IRA RUBINSTEIN, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND PROFESSOR DENNIS HIRSCH, CAPITAL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL (link to full document below the fold)…

…or so says Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel.net: “NCTC turning NCTC’s authority to sometimes get domestic terrorism information into authority to get any dataset maintained by any executive agency that NCTC believes might include some information that might be terrorism information. Those of us in the US Government’s tax, social security, HHS, immigration, military, and other federal databases?…

Not a great outcome… “The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a private pilot whose H.I.V.-positive status was improperly shared between government agencies cannot collect damages for the emotional distress he suffered when he was punished for hiding his medical condition from the Federal Aviation Administration.…