The Consumer Bonus from Tapping Leader’s Phones
We should expect some relatively fast action on privacy regulation in the U.S., E.U., and Brasil. All had been working on privacy legislation, but public knowledge that Brazil’s and E.U. leaders’...
View ArticlePragmatism on Privacy and Public Safety
Too often privacy advocates place privacy atop a rickety altar. They fuel the media’s spin on government spying and usually ignore public safety. They shriek democracy could be at risk because...
View ArticleOrwell, Privacy and the NSA
President Obama recently met with tech leaders at the White House to discuss a variety of issues, including an update on the attempt to fix healthcare.gov. At the meeting, the leaders – hailing from...
View ArticleYour Privacy and Compulsively Curious Federal Agencies
The National Security Agency (NSA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the Treasury routinely collect detailed information about Americans’ activities, communications and financial...
View ArticleHow DOJ Actions Could Harm U.S. Competitiveness Abroad
The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a search (and seizure) warrant to Microsoft Communications to hand over the private email communications of a suspected drug trafficker. The only problems with...
View ArticleDaily Caller: Can the U.S. Seize Emails from Anywhere in the World?
ACI’s writer, Zack Christenson, wrote a piece in Today’s Daily Caller that discusses the DOJ’s attempt to seize emails on foreign citizens that are stored on foreign data centers. The blog discusses...
View ArticleLeadership Needed at DOJ
The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a search warrant to Microsoft requiring it to produce the emails of an alleged Irish drug dealer. The emails are stored in Ireland on a Microsoft server. Irish...
View ArticleThe Four Tribes of Privacy Thieves
American consumers fall prey to privacy thieves with little available to protect them from these modern brigands. Distinguished by status and motivation, there are four tribes of cyber thieves –...
View ArticleDOJ Overreach Could Kill the Digital Economy
The health of the digital tech economy is inextricably linked to the health of the U.S. economy. According to a newly released Brookings Institute study, 61% of all U.S. exports were digitally...
View ArticleHuawei and Its Reputational Challenges
Meng Wanzhou, the CEO of Huawei, was arrested in Canada and held for extradition to the U.S. She will be charged with fraud, for telling “financial institutions that Huawei had no connection to a Hong...
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