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Cybersecurity Information Sharing: Private Ordering or Prescriptive Mandates?
March 18, 2013 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm When should private companies be allowed to share cyber threat information, including potentially sensitive user data such as...
Digital Fourth Amendment Privacy Protections Needed More Than Ever
Yesterday, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte promised to work with Senate Judiciary Chairman Leahy to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act’s increasingly outdated protections of...
Let’s Not Exaggerate Privacy Risks: Re-Identification Isn’t So Easy After All, says New Barth-Jones Paper
The privacy debate has been increasingly shaped by an apparent consensus that de-identifying sets of personally identifying information doesn’t work. In particular, this has led...
FTC Votes 4-1 for $22.5 Million Google Privacy Settlement
TechFreedom President Berin Szoka and Executive Director of the International Center for Law and Economics Geoffrey Manne were quoted on the recent FTC fine of...
Szoka & Radia: Cyber bill shouldn’t gut private contracts
TechFreedom President Berin Szoka and Associate Director of Technology Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute Ryan Radia prefigured the troubles with the Cybersecurity Bill yesterday...
Revised Cybersecurity Act Makes Meaningful Progress on Privacy
A new version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was introduced last night ( PDF ), and a vote on the Senate floor reportedly may...