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-- 2017 --
July 24: A federal judge in DC declined to
block President Donald Trump's voter integrity commission from collecting data
on voters from 50 states in a ruling on Monday
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/judge-denies-restraining-order-on-voter-data/index.html
October
11: Judge says US govt has 'no right to rummage' through anti-Trump
protest website logs
Court tells hosting biz to protect identities of netizens
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/11/trump_protest_website_privacy_latest/
-- 2018 --
April 3:
The FCC regulations would have required broadband companies to get permission
from their customers in order to use their “sensitive” data — including browsing
history, geolocation and financial and medical information — to create targeted
advertisements.
April 17: Supreme Court dismisses major
privacy rights case ... Microsoft had been battling the US Justice Department in
court for years, fighting against a government order to hand over data
stored on foreign servers. The Supreme Court had taken on the case, but it
dismissed it Tuesday, after the government told the justices that new
legislation rendered the case moot.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/17/technology/microsoft-doj-cloud-act/index.html
May 20:
The US Department of Transportation recently announced that 10 state and local
governments have been selected to test advanced drone applications as part of a
program to ease them into American skies.
The selected cities are San Diego, California; Reno, Nevada; Bismark, North
Dakota; Memphis, Tennessee; Durant, Oklahoma; Herndon, Virginia; Topeka, Kansas;
Raleigh, North Carolina; Fort Myers, Florida, and Fairbanks, Alaska.
The drones will be able to fly over people’s heads, at night, and outside the
view of the drone’s operator. This will free up drones to do everything from
deliver food and medicine to inspect critical infrastructure.
https://myfox8.com/2018/05/20/the-trump-administration-selects-10-cities-to-test-drones-and-one-of-them-is-in-north-carolina/
July 27: The Trump administration is talking
to Facebook and Google about potential rules for online privacy
The Trump administration is crafting a proposal to protect Web users’ privacy,
aiming to blunt global criticism that the absence of strict federal rules in the
United States has enabled data mishaps at Facebook and others in Silicon Valley.
Over the past month, the Commerce Department has been huddling with
representatives of tech giants such as Facebook and Google, Internet providers
including AT&T and Comcast, and consumer advocates, according to four people
familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on the record.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/07/27/trump-administration-is-working-new-proposal-protect-online-privacy/?utm_term=.05a9a6183a8c
July 30: Previously undisclosed TSA program
tracks unsuspecting passengers
Before people board a plane and are watched by federal air marshals, officials
use information from the intelligence community and their previous travel
patterns to help choose whom to target, according to the TSA official. The
official added the program has been in existence in some form since 2010, and
said Congress is aware and provides "robust" oversight.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/29/politics/tsa-passenger-tracking/index.html
September 17: The Trump administration wants
more spying power — and Congress appears poised to give it to them.
Touting national security to justify spying powers that jeopardize our
constitutional rights is a strategy that we have seen before. It happened with
the Patriot Act after 9/11, and members of Congress and government officials are
now employing similar arguments again. This time it involves a drone bill that
some in Congress are
pressing to
be sneakily inserted into a larger piece of legislation that could be considered
this month.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/congress-poised-give-trump-administration-powerful
September 25: The Trump administration took
new, preliminary steps toward crafting a nationwide
data privacy policy, issuing a request for comments from interested
stakeholders on a proposed framework put forward Tuesday by the Commerce
Department.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an
executive-branch agency responsible for advising the president on
telecommunications issues, made public a 7-part proposal that noted the
drawbacks of a "nationally and globally fragmented regulatory landscape."
The proposal -- a product of months-long consultations with dozens of industry,
privacy and government groups -- lays out goals related to transparency,
security and control of personal data that is collected by internet companies.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-white-house-data-privacy-proposal-national-telecommunications-information-administration/
-- 2019 --
March 14:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested Thursday he will protect President
Donald Trump’s privacy if he receives a request from House Democrats for Trump’s
tax returns.
At a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Mnuchin was asked whether he would
meet a request for Trump’s past tax returns. Chairman Rep. Richard Neal,
D-Mass., is expected to formally ask for those as Democrats seek to shed light
on Trump’s financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest.
“We will examine the request and we will follow the law … and we will protect
the president as we would protect any taxpayer” regarding their right to
privacy, Mnuchin said.
Neal is one of only three congressional officials authorized under a rarely used
1924 law to make a written request for anyone’s tax returns to the Treasury
secretary. The law says the Treasury chief “shall furnish” the requested
material to members of the committee for them to examine behind closed doors.
But Mnuchin did not specifically say he would turn them over.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/14/steven-mnuchin-tells-congress-hell-protect-president-trumps-tax-returns/3169417002/
-- 2020 --
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