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The Limits of Oversight and the PCLOB

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 10:32am
(Update below) Today, the nominees to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board (PCLOB) were voted from the Senate Judiciary Committee for full consideration in the ... Read More

DOJ Cell Phone Tracking: Excellent questions, Senator

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 4:51pm
Sen. Al Franken (D- MN) is trying to get some answers to straightforward questions about cell-phone location tracking. Today, using our recent nationwide FOIA as a ... Read More

Password Protection Act of 2012: A Good Start Against Employer Snooping

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 6:06pm
Today Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Representative Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and a number of cosponsors filed the Password Protection Act of 2012 in the Senate and ... Read More

Identity Theft and the War on Immigrants

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 3:41pm
The war on America's immigrants can lead to some very strange results. In a classic example, last year Republicans actually said, when it comes to immigration at ... Read More

Making Do Not Track a Reality

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 7:24pm
The ACLU has stated concern again and again about the new model of internet advertising which relies heavily on tracking users as they move from website to website ... Read More

A Primer for the Online Privacy Multistakeholder Process

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 5:12pm
What the heck is a multistakeholder process (MSP)? The word multistakeholder is so obscure that my computer's spell check doesn't even recognize it, yet it's come ... Read More

FTC Report: A Roadmap for Future Success?

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 2:21pm
The FTC's newly released privacy report is a roadmap to success on consumer privacy — now it's up to Congress to follow the directions Read More

Reading the Tea Leaves on Real ID

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 4:13pm
When a hearing is calm and subdued on an issue that has been contentious for seven years, is it news? Maybe - when that issue is Real ID. I blogged last fall ... Read More

Time to Get Down to Business on Privacy

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 12:16pm
Today, the White House released a new policy paper on consumer privacy which may mark an important turning point in the effort to return control over how our online ... Read More

Will Congress Take Privacy Out of Your Netflix Queue?

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 11:41am
The Senate is considering a bill that will have a big impact on your Netflix account. Here's why you should care. Read More
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