Daniel Solove of the George Washington University Law School and Chris Jay Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Center have written a paper discussing an approach to privacy protection.

In the aftermath of the ChoicePoint debacle, both of us have been asked by Congressional legislative staffers, state legislative policymakers, journalists, academics, and others about what specifically should be done to better regulate information privacy. In response to these questions, we believe that it is imperative to have a discussion of concrete legislative solutions to privacy problems. What appears below is our attempt at such an endeavor.

David Bank and Christopher Conkey report in the Wall St. Journal on the recent action by federal bank regulators telling banks they should notify customers of security breaches.   » Continue Reading