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Information Today April 21, 2015 George H. Pike |
May 1 Named National Day of PACER Protest Advocates for free access to legal information on the internet have proposed May 1 as the National Day of PACER Protest to encourage the federal courts to remove cost barriers to a wealth of information from the nation's courts. |
Information Today March 25, 2010 |
Judicial Conference Approves Public Access Improvements to PACER The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved key steps to improve public access to federal courts by increasing the availability of court opinions. |
InternetNews December 2, 2009 |
Privacy Group Warns of Digital Health Records Patient Privacy Rights issues report card showing wide variations in privacy safeguards in electronic health offerings. |
InternetNews February 29, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Wikileaks Ruling Nears, May Impact Net Free Speech The stage is set for a decision that could have far-ranging implications on freedom of speech and the Internet. |
Fast Company July 2001 Erika Germer |
Chief Privacy Officer Job Titles of the Future: It's no secret that consumer privacy is a weighty concern -- especially for a company with 90 million customers. That's why AT&T named Michael Lamb its first chief privacy officer. Lamb wants to make privacy a priority that's out in the open... |
CIO February 15, 2003 Sarah Johnson |
Keeping an Eye on the Joneses Getting the dirt on your neighbors has never been easier. As more public records are made available online, the country's court systems are now reevaluating what they think should be kept hidden from nosy Internet users while maintaining the public's right to know. |
Information Today August 11, 2008 George H. Pike |
CriminalSearches.com Offers Free Access to Criminal Records It recently has become much easier to find out whether your daughter's boyfriend or your new neighbor has a criminal record. |
InternetNews February 22, 2006 Roy Mark |
Tech Inadvertently Helps Spy Game A new report claims that popular services such as Webmail are eroding U.S. privacy laws. |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
Expanded Access to U.S. Federal Court Opinions A pilot project giving the public free, text-searchable, online access to court opinions now is available to all federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts. |
InternetNews December 18, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
E-Healthcare Gets Federal Mandate Department of Health and Human Services unveils best practices for ensuring patient privacy with online medical records, Medicare pushes e-prescriptions. |
PC World October 2003 Andrew Brandt |
Privacy Watch: California Law Protects Us All From Security Breaches New identity theft statute likely to help consumers everywhere. |
Entrepreneur December 2003 Chris Penttila |
Show of Good Faith It's more important than ever to show customers you'll keep their information private. |
InternetNews March 30, 2010 |
Coalition Aims to Rewrite Online Privacy Law Rivals and foes unite in broad-ranging Digital Due Process Coalition that aims to modernize the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act to account for cloud, location-based services. |
PC World April 25, 2008 Erik Larkin, PC World |
Should You Trust Your Health Records to Google and Microsoft? Until we have laws guaranteeing the privacy of my digitized health information, I'll pass. |
InternetNews March 6, 2008 Susan Kuchinskas |
See My Profile on MyDisease Do privacy concerns about putting personal health information online outweigh the benefits? |
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Privacy a Stumbling Block in Healthcare IT Government's push for universal electronic health records brings tech firms into thorny privacy debate. |
InternetNews September 22, 2010 |
Senate Ponders Update of Electronic Privacy Act Twenty four years after the passage of the ECPA, much has changed in the way companies and governments collect, store and share electronic data. |
Searcher August 2000 Josh Duberman & Michael Beaudet |
Privacy Perspectives for Online Searchers: Confidentiality with Confidence This article presents some of the issues and questions involved in online privacy from the information professional's perspective. We offer it as a resource for making more informed decisions in this rapidly changing area. |
InternetNews December 31, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Where is Net Privacy Headed in 2010? What does the federal government have in mind when it comes to issues of Internet privacy? |
Information Today May 3, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
Online Consumer Privacy in the Spotlight Choose Privacy Week is being held May 1-7, 2012. The theme is "Freedom from Surveillance." The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom established Choose Privacy Week to deepen public awareness about this issue. The event is timely with many privacy issues like CISPA in the news. |
PC World November 2000 Christina Wood |
Privacy Policy? What Privacy Policy? Many e-commerce companies have a commodity that can be as valuable as your cash and that they hold on to long after a sale is completed. That commodity is your personal information--and it can be at serious risk when dot coms die... |
Information Today May 12, 2015 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court to Address Standing to Sue for Data Breaches and Privacy Violations The ability of individuals to seek legal recovery for data breaches or the posting of inaccurate information or to defend their privacy rights may soon be impacted by the Supreme Court of the United States. |
ifeminists June 8, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Privacy: Throwing Babies Out with Bath Water Privacy rights are under attack and cases are so legally tangled that analysis becomes blurred and bad law based on judicial activism becomes more possible. |
InternetNews January 27, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Privacy 'Achilles Heel' in Health IT Debate Senate hearing considers privacy concerns as Congress prepares to spend billions on digitizing healthcare industry. |
Financial Advisor September 2007 Joel Bruckenstein |
File Trials Today's regulatory, legal and security environments demand a more robust document management solution and financial advisors who downplay these issues may find themselves doing so at their own risk. |
InternetNews May 28, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Momentum Builds for Updating Privacy Act Government, advocacy groups call for Congress and agencies to modernize the way citizens' personal information is handled. |
InternetNews September 14, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Google Calls For Global Privacy Standards Google goes on the offense in Europe over privacy concerns. |
InternetNews April 11, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Groups Spar Over Behavioral Web Ads FTC gets an earful in response to its proposal for self-regulatory behavioral ad targeting. |
InternetNews January 14, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Web Firms, Advocates Draw Lines in Privacy Fight With reforms to the Privacy Act looming on the congressional agenda, how will Internet companies be affected? |
Managed Care September 2002 |
New Privacy Regulations Almost Certain To Be Tested The Bush administration is moving to loosen health-privacy protections by requiring that providers tell patients about their privacy rights and make only a "good-faith effort" to get a written acknowledgement of that notice. |
InternetNews September 7, 2010 |
Google Faces Heat Over Privacy Tweaks A move to reduce legalese has one privacy advocacy group up in arms. |
Information Today May 3, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Celebrating Libraries and Promoting Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8) Choose Privacy Week, which takes place May 2-8, 2010, is about bringing information privacy issues out into the open and discussing them - and libraries are the perfect places for those conversations to take place. |
Searcher June 2003 Miriam Drake |
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Patriot II on the Way This article focuses on the government's data mining, information gathering, database building programs, and Radio Frequency Identification Chips. |
Information Today October 28, 2014 George H. Pike |
Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision A federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. |
InternetNews February 4, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Napolitano Urged to Act on Border Laptop Seizures Homeland security advisers press for greater oversight by privacy officials. |
CIO June 11, 2009 Michael Fitzgerald |
How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing Data Privacy Rules Facebook and Twitter are reshaping user expectations for control over their personal data and causing companies to rethink how they treat customer and business data. |
Managed Care December 2002 Fox et al. |
Modified HIPAA Privacy Rule Affects Research, Marketing, Security A modified rule allows the use and disclosure of "limited data sets" of personal health information for research, health care operations, or public health activities. These sets do not include direct identifiers, such as name, address, or Social Security number. |
PC Magazine May 4, 2010 Chloe Albanesius |
Consumers Haven't Learned Not to Divulge Private Info Online Despite warnings from privacy advocates to protect your personal information while online, many adults are still engaging in risky behavior via social networking sites, a new report from Consumer Reports concluded Tuesday. |
InternetNews May 21, 2004 Roy Mark |
Democrats Call for Privacy Czar A new bill would mandate federal privacy officer to balance civil liberties with homeland security concerns. |
InternetNews June 14, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
IBM Addresses RFID Privacy Radio frequency identification technology promises to speed supply chain operations by automating the tracking of goods. But its potential to track people has privacy advocates crying foul. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
NISO Studies Patron Privacy The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded NISO (National Information Standards Organization) a grant to develop the Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. |
InternetNews July 1, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook Aims to Simplify Privacy Settings With the policy sharks circling, Facebook plans to offer new tools to give users clearer control over their privacy settings. |
Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Brendon Lynch |
Web-Privacy Management Increases in Importance An organization's reputation is increasingly at risk online. Financial-services firms, in particular, are constantly updating their Web sites to provide readily accessible information, services and products to their customers and provide a high degree of visibility for the company and its brands.. |
Information Today November 5, 2007 |
Groups Urge FTC to Protect Consumer Privacy Online Nine privacy and consumer groups unveiled a consensus document outlining key consumer rights and protections they want to see implemented in the behavioral online advertising sector. |
Information Today December 20, 2010 |
Commerce Department Calls for 'Privacy Bill of Rights' The report outlines a dynamic framework to increase protection of consumers' commercial data and support innovation and evolving technology. The Department is seeking additional public comment on the plan. |
InternetNews May 24, 2010 |
Facebook CEO Apologizes for Privacy Missteps CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes his first public comments in response to Facebook's latest privacy controversy, promising to reveal a set of updates to the site in short order. |
InternetNews February 13, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Advocates Blast FTC Guidelines on Web Privacy Agency refreshes self-regulatory best practices for behavioral targeting as privacy advocates call for tougher stance. |
InternetNews November 18, 2009 |
Facebook Adopts Simplified Privacy Policy Facebook has formalized an update to its privacy rules in an effort to bring clarity and simplicity to the social networking giant's policies. |
InternetNews February 28, 2008 |
Google Eyes Medical Records, Data Sharing Business Google has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors' groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data. |
Salon.com October 6, 2000 Simson Garfinkel |
Mano a mano with John McCain At a committee hearing on online privacy, the senator asks me some tough questions and doesn't like what he hears... |