3/9/2010 Consumer Privacy Baseline Privacy Legislation Identity Management

1)    CDT Submits Comments in regards to the FTC’s Third Consumer Privacy Roundtable

2)    Understanding Identity Management

3)    The Letter: Identity Providers May Be Consumer Reporting Agencies under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

4)    The Spirit: Ensuring Identity Providers Protect Privacy
 

3/2/2010 Consumer Privacy Location

1)    CDT Testifies on Location Privacy
2)    Location Information is Poorly Protected in the Commercial Context
3)    Statutory Protection of Location Information is Woefully Outdated
4)    Existing Legal Standards for Access to and Protection of Location Information Are Woefully Inadequate

1/28/2010 Consumer Privacy Location

1) What is Privacy by Design?
2) Privacy Enhancing Technologies or Privacy by Design?
3) Privacy by Design: Behavioral Advertising
4) CDT’s Recommendations for FTC action

1/26/2010 Consumer Privacy Baseline Privacy Legislation

1) CDT Files Two Sets of Comments to the FCC about the Importance of Privacy in the Context of the National Broadband Plan.
2) The National Broadband Plan should release an updated version of FIPs to guide privacy practices by the federal government and industry.
3) The National Broadband Plan should recommend enactment of a federal baseline consumer privacy law.
4) The National Broadband Plan should recommend updates to the Privacy Act of 1974.
5) The National Broadband Plan should promote the incorporation of Privacy by Design principles into both innovation and business and government practices.
6) Encourage a marketplace of privacy protective, user-centric decentralized identity providers.
7) The National Broadband Plan should encourage innovation and consumer protection in third-party applications.
 

1) CDT Files Two Sets of Comments to the FCC about the Importance of Privacy in the Context of the National Broadband Plan.

1/25/2010 CDT Comments to the FCC on Net Neutrality FCC's NPRM Internet Openness & Standards Internet Neutrality

1) CDT Offers Recommendations in FCC’s “Open Internet” Proceeding

2) Questioning the FCC’s Assertions of Jurisdiction over the Internet

3) Comments on the Proposed Rules

4) The Road Ahead and the Comcast Appeal

12/9/2009 CDT Behavioral Advertising Report Federal Trade Commission Staff Report, Self-Regulatory Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising: Tracking, Targeting & Technology Network Advertising Initiative, 2008 NAI Principles: The Network Advertising Initiative’s Self-Regulatory Code of Conduct Interactive Advertising Bureau, Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising USPIRG Legislative Primer September 2009 Consumer Privacy Behavioral Advertising

1)    CDT Releases Online Behavioral Advertising Report

2)    Scope of Regulatory Frameworks

3)    CDT Recommendations for Improving Consumer Privacy Protections

12/7/2009 Senate Committee Report on PATRIOT Reauthorization CDT chart comparing the House and Senate bills to current law Full analysis of NSLs, their abuse by the FBI, and CDT’s recommendations Security & Surveillance PATRIOT Act

Congress Rejects PATRIOT Act Re-Write, but Modest Improvements Still Possible

1)    House and Senate Committees Renew PATRIOT with Mostly Minor Changes
2)    The Risks of National Security Letters
3)    House Bill Offers More Significant Change to NSL Authority
4)    Obama Administration Uses Secret Briefings to Resist Strong Standards for FBI Investigations

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1)  House and Senate Committees Renew PATRIOT with Mostly Minor Changes

On November 5, the House Judiciary Committee completed its mark up and reported a PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill, H.R. 3845. The Senate Judiciary Committee completed its markup of companion legislation, S. 1692, in October. The next stop for both bills are floor votes and then a process to reconcile the differences between them.  The outlines of a final package are probably in the two bills reported by the Committees, but the full Congressional calendar suggests that there is not sufficient time for the process to wrap up this year.

PATRIOT is under discussion right now because two of the Act’s amendments to intelligence authorities, and a third, related intelligence authority, are due to expire, or “sunset,” on December 31 unless Congress renews them.  The three expiring provisions, while important, are not as significant as other PATRIOT Act provisions that do not expire.  One expiring provision has never been used and a second was rendered less important by intervening changes in related laws.