White House Privacy Report

Obama Administration Pursues Mobile Privacy Code of Conduct

Posted on June 18, 2012 by J. Bradford Currier

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”) will hold its first meeting on July 12, 2012 aimed at developing voluntary codes of conduct designed to provide consumers with clear information regarding how personal data is handled by companies which develop and offer applications for mobile devices. The NTIA’s planned meetings with stakeholders were first announced in February 2012 as part of the White House’s proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. Full Story

Tags: White House Privacy Report

Senate Commerce Committee Holds Hearing On Privacy Reports

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Dan Kahn

Today, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing to seek the views of the Federal Trade Commission and the Administration on privacy issues. Discussion at the hearing, entitled “The Need for Privacy Protections: Perspectives from the Administration and the Federal Trade Commission,” focused in significant part on the privacy reports recently released by the FTC and the Administration. Full Story

The "Do Not Track" Button: If Only a Large Office Supply Chain Could Start Making Those As Well.

Posted on March 26, 2012 by John Gotaskie

By now, you have almost certainly seen the reports that the White House and the Federal Trade Commission want a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights with seven principles:

Individual Control: Consumers have a right to exercise control over what personal data companies collect from them and how they use it.

Full Story

Tags: FTC, FTC Privacy Report, White House Privacy Report

Privacy Bill of Rights and Enforceable Codes of Conduct: The Evolving Privacy Landscape

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Tracy Marshall

The Obama Administration’s consumer data privacy framework released last month will impact companies’ data collection, use, and retention practices, and raises complex legal issues. As explained in a recent article by Keller and Heckman LLP, the notion of codes of conduct developed through a multistakeholder process, to be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), raises (1) administrative procedure concerns, and (2) questions as to whether self-regulatory initiatives could be hampered. Full Story

Tags: Internet Cookies, White House Privacy Report

Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights – Summary and Invitation to Comment

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Cynthia Larose

The Department of Commerce has already taken the first steps to implementing the White House’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights announced last month. Commerce has invited comment on “what issues should be addressed through the privacy multi-stakeholder process and how to structure these discussions so they are open, transparent, and most productive.” Full Story

Tags: Internet Cookies, White House Privacy Report

Obama Administration Releases New Privacy Framework; Interactive Industry Responds to Calls for a “Do Not Track” Option

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Davis & Gilbert LLP

The Obama Administration has released a framework for protecting privacy and promoting innovation in the global digital economy that it intends to implement “without delay.” The document, “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World,” highlights the continuing importance of privacy issues to businesses and individuals – and to the government.

Full Story

Tags: White House Privacy Report

White House Proposes Approach to Privacy Protection On-line

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Paul J. Feldman

Hoping to shape the development of national – and possible international – consensus on the privacy protections to which on-line consumers should be entitled, the Obama Administration has issued a report on “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World” in which it lays out a “blueprint for privacy in the information age.” A central component of the report is a proposed “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights”. That “bill of rights” reflects a set of principles which are, at this point, merely aspirational, with no independent legal force. Full Story

Tags: White House Privacy Report

Commerce Department Kicks Off Multistakeholder Process for Consumer Privacy Codes of Conduct

Posted on March 5, 2012 by John J. Heitmann

In the wake of the White House’s February 23, 2012 release of Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting and Promoting Innovation in a Global Digital Economy (“Framework”), the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) published in today’s Federal Register a request for public comments from all interested stakeholders on consumer data privacy issues to be addressed through enforceable voluntary codes of conduct. Full Story

Tags: Internet Cookies, White House Privacy Report

NTIA Seeks Comment On Beginning Conduct-Code Discussions

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Michael Beder

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) sought public comment Wednesday on how to begin the process of developing voluntary codes of conduct governing consumer privacy, as called for in the privacy framework released by the White House last month. Full Story

Tags: White House Privacy Report

White House Releases Data Privacy Framework – Includes “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” – LXBN Roundtable

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Jared Sulzdorf

As a denizen of the internet, I’ve always viewed my personal information as a form of currency. If I want to use a service online, my address, e-mail, and phone number are all fair game. However, I’ve always maintained the mindset of, “At least someone is asking me for this information.” Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.

From online tracking mechanisms (such as cookies or spyware) that watch our every step once we enter a website to iPhone applications that download your entire address book , our personal data exchanges hands faster than we can click or dial. While the European Union gives consumers a considerable amount of control over this information (as discussed in last week’s LXBN Roundtable), it wasn’t until last Thursday, February 23^rd , that the United States made any sort of steps to provide consumers with rights to their information online. Full Story

Tags: Internet Cookies, White House Privacy Report

White House Privacy Report

Obama Administration Pursues Mobile Privacy Code of Conduct

Senate Commerce Committee Holds Hearing On Privacy Reports

The "Do Not Track" Button: If Only a Large Office Supply Chain Could Start Making Those As Well.

Privacy Bill of Rights and Enforceable Codes of Conduct: The Evolving Privacy Landscape

Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights – Summary and Invitation to Comment

Obama Administration Releases New Privacy Framework; Interactive Industry Responds to Calls for a “Do Not Track” Option

White House Proposes Approach to Privacy Protection On-line

Commerce Department Kicks Off Multistakeholder Process for Consumer Privacy Codes of Conduct

NTIA Seeks Comment On Beginning Conduct-Code Discussions

White House Releases Data Privacy Framework – Includes “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” – LXBN Roundtable

Video interviews

Network Twitter Feed

Become a Part of the Conversation

New to The LexBlog Network

LexBlog

Real Lawyers Have Blogs

Please Advise