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[…] Lockheed Martin in August 2008 from the Office of the United States Special Counsel (OSC), where he served as the Deputy Special Counsel, a career Senior Executive Service (SES) position. Prior to that assignment, Byrne was the General Counsel and Assistant Inspector General for Investigations with the Office of the Special Inspector General for […]

[…] as an “HTTPS connection,” and it cannot be deciphered. Being encrypted prevents the hacker sitting across from you at Starbucks, who is also using their free wireless service, from viewing your bank information. The encrypted connection prevents anyone from snooping on your communications. (Believe it or not, up until the last couple of months […]

[…] opt-out principal and the mechanism for control. We apply opt-out, for example, to all first-party transactions. We apply opt-out to interactions between a first party and a service provider, whose services are necessary to complete the first party transaction.  That information is subject to opt-out. We apply opt-out to affiliates of the first party, […]

[…] greater length in a law review article, Privacy and Regulatory Innovation: Moving Beyond Voluntary Codes, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society (forthcoming Winter 2011) available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1510275. All page references below are to the draft version currently posted on SSRN… To read Rubinstein’s full blog about this issue click here

[…] or service they develop, create a privacy statement that describes how personal data will be handled in response to identified privacy concerns, and design features that protect customer’s privacy by applying all relevant aspects of a robust privacy framework. (One example is the APEC Privacy Framework (Nov. 2004), which includes nine principles of Fair […]

[…] Buzz.com method mentioned in the quoted post below, users should be able to clearly see that use or sharing of their information is a feature of the service.  More transparency, user control, and increased trust will result from calling privacy policies what exactly what they are: policies about how information will be used and […]

[…] 2010 Panelists talked about innovative uses of information to personalize users’ online experience, make product recommendations, provide services, and connect people with similar personal, business or community service interests. Other topics included the privacy considerations these uses create. 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Panel 2: Privacy Frameworks and Innovative Uses of Personal Information Moderator: […]

[…] automatically assigned Gmail users a network of “followers” from among users’ most frequent Gmail correspondents. This was done without adequately informing Gmail users about how this new service would work, and without providing sufficient information that would allow informed decisions. As stated in the Privacy Commissioners’ letter: “This violated the fundamental principle that individuals […]

[…] biometrics.” For biometrics to become ubiquitous, one speaker said biometrics should be widely used for facilities access, by employers for time and attendance recording of employees, and customer identification for various transactions, such as financial transactions. One goal of this NDIA Conference was to address government progress on implementation of U.S. Homeland Security Presidential […]

[…] consumers such as identity theft, and they raise concerns about the unwanted distribution of personal information to unintended recipients. … Consumers only will expand their adoption and usage of broadband services and technologies if they can be confident that there are adequate privacy and data security protections available. Thus, ensuring that broadband Internet access […]