GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Bill to Restrict Online Tracking Introduced in Congress

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Wired.com: Epicenter

12February2011 5:32pmEST

GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) introduced a bill Friday that would require online-tracking firms to allow citizens to opt out of tracking, or else face stiff fines.

The bill, known as the Do-Not-Track-Me-Online Act, intends to let people choose a no-tracking setting in their browser and have companies obey that setting. The rules would mainly apply to companies whose primary business is collecting and analyzing data, but has loopholes for companies that collect data to improve their own services. Under those provisions, the FTC could rule website-analytics software to be legal. (read full report)

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Advocacy Group Calls for Investigation of Google's 'Secret' NSA Relationships

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SOURCE: Switched

27January2011 3:42pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  A consumer-advocacy group is urging Congress to investigate what it calls a suspiciously "cozy" relationship between Google and the Obama administration.

In a letter (PDF) sent to Representative Darrell Issa, Consumer Watchdog asked the Republican to hold a congressional investigation into contracts that governmental agencies have signed with Google, as well as the NSA's "secretive" relationship with the company. The group went on to claim that the government took "insufficient" action after Google admitted to inadvertently collecting personal data from Wi-Fi networks with its Street View cars -- an incident that Consumer Watchdog called "the largest wire tapping scandal in world history." (read full report)