Surveillance Law Must Protect Privacy and Security - Testimony

• "The Right to Privacy" by Warren and Brandeis

  he modern "right to privacy" is frequently attributed to Warren and Brandeis' groundbreaking 1890 law review essay of that same name. Its initial purpose, according to Steven Childress, was to recognize, within the traditional common law, "a civil and non-contractual right of protection against invasions of privacy."

  
  
• FBI "technically violated" wiretap laws for years

  FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni said in an interview Monday that the FBI technically violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act when agents invoked nonexistent emergencies to collect records.

  
  
• Obama to Appoint Information Security Coordinator

  President Barack Obama confirmed Friday that the White House will be creating a new office to be led by a cybersecurity czar. The office will be in charge of coordinating efforts to secure government networks and U.S. critical infrastructures.

  
  
• Cloud concerns and data safety in the legal profession

  So the fact that Dropbox allows legal access to your data is not the end of the world for use of the cloud, even for lawyers. But for truly secure offsite storage, likely more secure than even old-fashioned paper storage, consider solutions that provide end-to-end encryption.

  
  
• Judge Noble Hand hints at the move from property to people

  I have already discussed how Fourth Amendment protections and related "right to privacy" have shifted from a focus on property in the 19th century to one focused on people in the 20th. Judge Noble Hand's 1897 law review article, Schuyler against Curtis and the Right to Privacy, gives some interesting hints about how American jurists contributed to this shift.

  
  

Post title: Surveillance Law Must Protect Privacy and Security - Testimony

Authored by: krisnelson

Date posted: Sep 19, 2007

Categorized as: constitution • government • law • search and seizure

Tagged with: law • privacy

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