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Security Expert Blasts TSA’s New Screening Procedures

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Hunton & Williams LLP

The Transportation Security Administration has put in place new screening procedures in time for the busy Thanksgiving travel season.  The new procedures have been broadly criticized by aviation security experts and privacy advocates.  One of those experts, Professor Fred H. Cate, Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and Professor of Law at Indiana University, has published an open letter to Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex), urging oversight and reform.  The letter details the ineffectiveness of the new procedures and criticizes them for violating basic notions of privacy.  Professor Cate is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP.

Read Professor Cate’s letter.
 

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French Data Protection Authority Unveils 2010 Inspections Report

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Hunton & Williams LLP

On March 17, 2010, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published a report concerning on-site inspections and outlined its objectives for the coming year.  In the report, which was adopted on February 18, 2010, the CNIL indicated that it intends to conduct at least 300 on-site inspections throughout France in 2010, with a special focus on the following issues:

  • ensuring compliance with CNIL decisions, in particular the CNIL’s standards for simplified notifications;
  • verifying that data controllers comply with the technical recommendations defined in their registration forms; and
  • assessing the effectiveness of data protection officers within organizations.

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