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		<title>FTC Budget Justification Requests More Privacy, Security, New Media Staff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s Fiscal Year 2011 budget request asked Congress for 40 additional Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) staff.  Several of these would be in the area of privacy, data security, and new media:
2 FTE for data security enforcement and rulemakings related to data security, breach notice and consumer access to information in certain databases, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2010/02/10/ftc-budget-justification-requests-more-privacy-security-new-media-staff/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Not Close Our Eyes In A Changing Media Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC has issued two major Notices of Inquiry. One asks several questions about the Future of Media, and begins:
The objective of this review is to assess whether all Americans have access to vibrant, diverse sources of news and information that will enable them to enrich their lives, their communities and our democracy. The Future [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2010/02/06/lets-not-close-our-eyes-in-a-changing-media-environment/</link>
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		<title>Homeland Security Privacy Assessments: Online for a Limited Time Only?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a Federal Register notice, the Homeland Security Privacy office announces the publication &#8212; for a limited time &#8212; of four Privacy Impact Assessments:
SUMMARY: The Privacy Office of the Department of Homeland Security is
making available four Privacy Impact Assessments on various programs
and systems in the Department. These assessments were approved and
published on the Privacy Office&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2009/05/05/homeland-security-privacy-assessments-online-for-a-limited-time-only/</link>
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		<title>Simple Minded Regional Prejudices in a Supreme Court Opinion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the Supreme Court released its opinion (pdf) in FCC v. Fox Television Studios. The case concerns the FCC&#8217;s change in 2004 to enforce a ban on even single uses of profanity on the air. More background on the case is here. The opinion contains this amazing quote (page 24) provided by Justice Scalia:
We doubt, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2009/04/28/simple-minded-regional-prejudices-in-a-supreme-court-opinion/</link>
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		<title>DOJ Stalking Report Estimates Hundreds of Thousands of Electronic Privacy Invasions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics last week reported on its survey: &#8220;Stalking Victimization in the United States.&#8221; The survey was composed of 65,000 responses, and led to a total estimate of 5.8 million victims: 3.4 million stalking, and 2.4 million for harassment. The study covers victimization occurring mostly in 2005: the responses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2009/01/23/doj-stalking-report-estimates-hundreds-of-thousands-of-electronic-privacy-invasions/</link>
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		<title>Two Cases for Privacy in Intimate Settings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two end of the year cases found privacy rights for individuals in intimate settings. In Iowa, a man who recorded his wife in the marital home was ordered to pay damages. Significantly, in Wisconsin, a man had his felony conviction upheld for secretly videotaping his nude girlfriend in his presence.  In both cases, the losing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2009/01/14/two-cases-for-privacy-in-intimate-settings/</link>
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		<title>Palin Email Hack: Probably Quite Common</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The media and blogosphere are reporting the story of the break-in at Sarah Palin&#8217;s yahoo email account. Information is filtering in about who is responsible and how it was done, but it appears like there is also a lot of speculation based on lack of knowledge of Internet subcultures.
My guess is that this was done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2008/09/18/palin-email-hack-probably-quite-common/</link>
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		<title>Our Family Wizard &#8212; Tracking Your Divorced Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I heard of a web-based service for divorced or separated families, Our Family Wizard:
Secure, shared communication, schedules and information management for families. We help parents who are separated, divorced or living apart and the family law professionals who work with them manage communication, parenting time schedules, children’s’ activities, expenses and other important information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2008/08/18/our-family-wizard-tracking-your-divorced-life/</link>
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		<title>Political Donations and Privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Solove questions whether people&#8217;s political donations should be so public:
Pursuant to the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), people&#8217;s campaign contributions must be accessible to the public. I&#8217;ve long found this to be problematic when applied to the campaign contributions of individuals. Certainly, information must be reported to the government to ensure that campaign contribution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2008/08/05/political-donations-and-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Questioning the Politics of the FISA Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people have been critical of how the Democratic leadership handled the recent FISA deal.  Blogger Glenn Greenwald notes some of the reactions. There have even been quotes that the administration got &#8220;a better deal than they hoped to get.&#8221;  I commented on the radio (KPFA, 19 minutes in) that this was not a &#8220;compromise&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2008/06/24/questioning-the-politics-of-the-fisa-deal/</link>
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