Swire Presents at FBI/DOD Sponsored Facial Recognition Forum
On Wednesday, March 14 FPF Senior Fellow Peter Swire gave a talk on “Facial Recognition by the Government: Privacy and Civil Liberties Issues.” The talk took place at the third installment in the U.S. Government Facial Recognition Legal Series. Wednesday’s forum was titled “Striking the Balance – A Government Approach to Facial Recognition Privacy and […]
Peter Swire
Peter P. Swire Peter P. Swire is the Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor at the Scheller College of Business of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum, and also a fellow with the Center for American Progress and Center for Democracy and Technology. In […]
From our lips to the Senate's ears…Cass Sunstein receives confirmation
On Wednesday, we wrote on our blog that Congress could help ensure that privacy issues are given the utmost priority by confirming Cass Sunstein as the new administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. OIRA is the office at OMB that helps oversee government agency privacy issues. As luck would have it, we […]
Too soon to judge Obama administration on privacy…
A number of the most fervent privacy groups today put out a report critiquing the Obama administration’s record to date on privacy issues. At only 9 months in, it seems a bit too soon to rate the Administration. As we have written previously, we do think there have been early indications of a commitment to […]
White House Cookies Update
So turns out that we don’t yet have a draft cookie policy to react to, but today we have a more formal request for comment that lays out the framework OMB is looking at and guidance on the more specific input OMB is seeking. See Open Government Blog. Here are the details: Under the framework […]
It is Official! No one is in charge of my retinal scan!
Feds announce that Clear Pass data aint their problem. Stay on this one, Marc Rotenberg! Fate of Registered Traveler data up in air after vendor quits program — Federal Computer Week. One more reason the US needs a Chief Privacy Officer is that there is so much that falls within the cracks of jurisdiction. Data […]
From Webtrends: Thoughts on Web 2.0 Cookie Transparency and Control
One analytics company, Webtrends, speaks up about how the federal government can use cookies. In a blog post and in a comment at the White House Open Government, site they make some sensible points about transparency and the use of first party domains. The ideas echo some of the proposals we and CDT have previously […]
White House Cookies: Wrap-Up of the Open Government Brainstorming: Participation
The White House Open Government site will be hosting discussion of a few issues on Friday, including suggestions by FPF, CDT, EFF and Professor Peter Swire about updating the current government policy around the use of cookies. The topic listed is as follows: Update the cookies policy to come up to speed with the latest […]
Volume of the Obama Administration on Privacy
Our friend Saul Hansell at the New York Times has a piece today entitled “The Obama Administration’s Silence on Privacy, ” which references a speech given yesterday at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference. The speech was made by Susan Crawford, a science and technology advisor to President Obama. While we are often in synch […]
Obama Adds Senior Security/Privacy Role to White House Staff
It is very heartening to see the important new office of the Cyber Security Coordinator include a dedicated privacy official.