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Telecom privacy news
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- May 23 2011
On May 18, 2011, Sen. John "Jay" Rockefeller IV, Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, sent letters to Apple, Google, and the Association for Competitive Technology asking whether applications running on their mobile platforms comply with COPPA
Telecom privacy
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- USA
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- March 14 2011
The US Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved S. 193, the USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011, to modify and reauthorize three surveillance-related provisions of the Patriot Act
Telecom privacy news
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- March 28 2011
France's privacy agency, Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), fined Google 100,000 Euro (approximately $114,000) for improperly acquiring and storing data for its Street View product
Telecom privacy news
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- USA
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- May 30 2011
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., Chair of the new Senate Privacy Subcommittee, last week asked Apple and Google to ensure that their “app” stores offer “clear, understandable privacy policies.”
Telecom privacy news
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- USA
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- April 4 2011
Reps. Joe Barton, R-Tex., and Edward J. Markey, D- Mass., Co-Chairs of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, have asked the chief executive officers of AT&T, Inc., Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp., and T-Mobile USA, Inc. questions about how they store, collect, and disclose wireless location data
Telecom privacy news
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- USA
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- May 16 2011
This past week, Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex., co-chairs of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, released a discussion draft of online privacy legislation aimed at protecting children
Telecom privacy news
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- USA
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- April 11 2011
On April 1, 2011, e-mail-marketing company Epsilon reported that it detected an "unauthorized entry" into its email system and discovered that email addresses and names belonging to a "subset" of its clients had been exposed to attackers
Telecom privacy news
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- USA
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- May 9 2011
In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that employees may be held liable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. 1030 et seq., when they steal or remove electronic files or data in violation of their employers’ written computer-use policies
Telecom privacy news
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- USA
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- February 28 2011
On February 10, 2011, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., introduced his promised privacy bill as HR 611, the Building Effective Strategies To Promote Responsibility Accountability Choice Transparency Innovation Consumer Expectations and Safeguards Act, or the “BEST PRACTICES Act”
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