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

 

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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: WikiLeaks rival launches new secret-spilling site

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SOURCE: PhysOrg.com

28January2011 3:06pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The new platform, called OpenLeaks, will allow sources to choose specifically who they want to submit documents to anonymously, such as to a particular news outlet, said Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

"We'd like to work with media outlets that have an interest in informing the public," he told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum meeting of top business and political leaders in the Swiss resort of Davos.

The difference between his group and WikiLeaks, he said, would be that his group leaves reviewing the material up to the publication or advocacy group chosen by the source to receive the information.

WikiLeaks has struggled to wade through the vast amounts of material it received - particularly the hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables - and been criticized for sharing the data with only a handful of media outlets around the world. (read full report)