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Month: January 2014

January 28, 2014November 8, 2018 Jeramie D. Scott

License Plate Readers – Will the FBI Ever Address Their Privacy Implications?

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License Plate Readers – Will the FBI Ever Address Their Privacy Implications?

The FBI has been testing and using automatic License Plate Readers (LPRs) for years, yet recently received Freedom of Information Act documents indicate that they still haven’t…

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January 28, 2014November 8, 2018 Alan Butler

Does the Fourth Amendment Protect International Packages?

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Does the Fourth Amendment Protect International Packages?

According to a recent report by the German news site Der Speigel, the NSA’s elite hacking division, known as Tailored Access Operations or TAO, has worked with…

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January 28, 2014November 9, 2018 Khaliah Barnes

Failing Grade: Education Records and Student Privacy

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Failing Grade: Education Records and Student Privacy

Earlier this month at our Capitol Hill briefing entitled, “Failing Grade: Education Records and Student Privacy,”  Senator Ed Markey announced plansto introduce new student privacy legislation. Senator…

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January 28, 2014November 9, 2018 David Husband

Skipping Classified Briefings: Why Not Attending Makes Sense from a Functional Perspective

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Skipping Classified Briefings: Why Not Attending Makes Sense from a Functional Perspective

This past year, there has been a great deal of commentary, some of it derisive, regarding Representative James Sensenbrenner’s claim to have skipped relevant classified…

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January 28, 2014November 9, 2018 David Jacob

Reports of the Death of Consent Have Been Greatly Exaggerated 

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Reports of the Death of Consent Have Been Greatly Exaggerated 

Consent in privacy law is dead, the victim of technological developments like Big Data and the Internet of Things–or so the new conventional wisdom goes.…

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January 28, 2014July 30, 2019 Julia Horwitz

Barthes on FOIA

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I recently revisited “The Death of the Author,” an essay about narrative voice by the poststructuralist critic Roland Barthes. In it, Barthes rejects the phenomenon often…

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