New powers being given to the Home Office will provide the government with sweeping data protection law exemptions; the Data Protection Bill contains a small but significant "immigration exemption" clause that will prevent migrants or "suspected" migrants from seeking information on their immigration status.
This new regulation comes on the heels of sweeping data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that note a strong uptick in e-cigarette usage among teenagers, corresponding with a downturn in teen tobacco usage.
In December, the European Parliament passed sweeping data retention rules aimed at the telecommunications and Internet industries, requiring that fixed-line and cellphone records, e-mail and Internet logs be stored for up to two years.
WASHINGTON -- After allowing portions of the Patriot Act to expire early Monday, lawmakers voted on Tuesday to reinstate the National Security Agency's sweeping data collection programs, though with modest reforms to the agency's programs and the secret court charged with keeping it in check.
On the other hand, as alleged by Mr. Snowden and corroborated by other sources, the government's sweeping data mining and domestic surveillance programs have a direct impact on almost all Americans, effectively redefining our expectation of privacy.
And while they're supposed to be non-political, we'd still like to applaud the low-level federal judges who are quietly launching a "Magistrates' Revolt" against sweeping data collection.
Ms. Reding outlined new regulations that were presented in Brussels on Wednesday and were designed to implement one sweeping data protection regulation that would apply to all of Europe.
Privacy advocates — and anyone who cares about civil liberties or information security — should be rightly concerned about such sweeping data capture powers.
Without subregional statistical data, only using sweeping data such as that on monoethnic households or taking administrative divisions as units to study the status of ethnic intermarriage cannot effectively illustrate the structural characters of Chinese ethnic intermarriage.
Mr. Obama's last gathering with the historians took place over dinner in January — before misconduct at the Internal Revenue Service and revelations of sweeping data-collection by the National Security Agency burst into public view.
