Chronology of Coverage

Spying Claims Ignite Debate About Privacy (https://nyti.ms/2npM1r4)

Mar. 20, 2017
By SHANE SCOTT
President Trumps wiretapping claim against the Obama administration brings up disputes on
whether or not security agencies are invading Americans privacy and undermine democracy.
National Desk
Our Data, Ourselves (https://nyti.ms/2mIq4k5)
Mar. 19, 2017
By AMY WEBB
Amy Webb reviews "Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for
You" by Andreas Weigend and "The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker
Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data," by Kevin Mitnick with
Robert Vamosi.
Opposing Views on What to Do About the Data We Create (https://nyti.ms/2mIq4k5)
Mar. 15, 2017
By AMY WEBB
Andreas Weigend, in Data for the People, and Kevin Mitnick, in The Art of Invisibility, are
alarmed about data mining and the loss of privacy.
F.C.C. Halts New Data Security Rule (https://nyti.ms/2maO55f)
Mar. 2, 2017
By CECILIA KANG
During Mr. Wheeler's tenure, the F.C.C. created numerous regulations meant to protect users of
broadband internet, including the privacy rules passed in October that required strong
data-security measures and allowed internet service providers to collect data on web browsing
and app usage only with the permission of customers.
How to Tell a Secret in the Digital Age (https://nyti.ms/2lFI65d)
Mar. 2, 2017
By STEPHEN HILTNER
A Times project offering readers simple ways to securely submit tips from their phone or email

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paid dividends in news gathering on Day 1.
What U.S. Tech Giants Face in Europe in 2017 (https://nyti.ms/2k5OxgU)
Jan. 2, 2017
By MARK SCOTT
Lawmakers in Ireland are also appealing the decision, claiming that the European Commission,
the executive arm of the European Union, overstepped its jurisdiction and that Apple did not
receive preferential tax treatment. Amid concerns that Facebook did not sufficiently clamp down
on fake news during the American presidential election, the company has faced similar worries
in Europe, where some officials have called for it to be held responsible for such content, and for
hate speech.
Automobiles
Trump's Russia Motives: Commentary (https://nyti.ms/2lpYpE9)
Feb. 21, 2017
By DAVID LEONHARDT
In their Russia-related inquiries, the F.B.I. and the Senate Intelligence Committee will need to
focus first on what happened -- whether Trump's team broke any laws and whether the president
has lied about it.
Commentary
Erasing the Past From Google Search (Commentary)
(http://search.proquest.com/nytimes/docview/1838742128/DC2D996A973440FPQ/4?accoun
tid=14071)
Nov. 12, 2016
By JD BIERSDORFER
How do you get false or damaging personal information removed from Google search results?
Question
Erasing the Past From Google Search (https://nyti.ms/2nFcVuK)
Nov. 11, 2016
By JD BIERSDORFER
The United States doesnt have right to be forgotten laws as Europe does, but Google
considers some requests to remove information from search results.
Should You Spy on Your Kids? (https://nyti.ms/2kuxyVK)

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Nov. 9, 2016
By NICK WINGFIELD
Using smartphones to track family members can be reassuring, but it can open the door to a
surveillance state in the home.

Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany

(https://nyti.ms/2ozwvpi)
Sept. 27, 2016
By MARK SCOTT
A Hamburg regulator said on Tuesday that neither the messenger nor its parent company had
received individuals' permission to share digital information.
Discord Over Snooping Muted by Security Fears (https://nyti.ms/2ozTgcR)
Sept. 23, 2016
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
Since 2013, several European governments have seized on the public's fear of terrorism to
expand surveillance but also to put in place better safeguards to control it, with clearer rules and
more stringent civilian oversight.
Edward Snowden Says Disclosures Bolstered Individual Privacy
(https://nyti.ms/2jQTWLo)
Sept. 16, 2016
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Speaking from Russia to a session of the Athens Democracy Forum, the whistleblower said he
would maintain his focus on U.S. surveillance policies.
Privacy, Ethics and Colin Powell's Hacked Emails (https://nyti.ms/2nBi6LL)
Sept. 15, 2016
By NEW YORK TIMES ONLINE
One reader objects to publication of private emails from Colin Powell deriding Donald Trump
and Hillary Clinton, and another urges discretion.
Downside of Bitcoin: A Ledger That Can't Be Corrected (https://nyti.ms/2jB6Qe4)
Sept. 10, 2016

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By RICHARD LUMB
...the United States Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Securities
and Exchange Commission's Regulation S-P all require personal financial data to be easily
redacted.
Filming of Hospital Patients (https://nyti.ms/2nBoL8B)
May 2, 2016
By NEW YORK TIMES ONLINE
A doctor says medical institutions "should have specific enforceable policies about the
confidentiality of images created in the medical workplace."
WhatsApp Blocked in Brazil as Judge Seeks Data (https://nyti.ms/2ozTXTx)
May 2, 2016
By VINOD SREEHARSHA
A court in Brazil has been seeking information from the messaging service to help in an
organized crime and drug trafficking investigation.
Europe's Web Privacy Rules: Bad for Google, Bad for Everyone (https://nyti.ms/2ozC1Zk)
Apr. 25, 2016
By DAPHNE KELLER
Restricting what search results users can see undermines the Internet's promise of global access
to information.
Security Czars on Apple's Side in Privacy War (https://nyti.ms/2ozEjHT)
Apr. 23, 2016
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Booz Allen's executive vice president, Thad W. Allen, a former Coast Guard commandant, has
also voiced support for Apple's position on encryption, because, he said, American technology
firms need to stay competitive in the international market.
Hospital to Pay $2.2 Million Over Filming of 2 Patients Without Their Consent
(https://nyti.ms/2jE2eXw)
Apr. 22, 2016
By CHARLES ORNSTEIN
The Office for Civil Rights oversees the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a
federal patient privacy law known as Hipaa. Dr. Joel Geiderman, co-chairman of the emergency
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medicine department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and chairman of the ethics
committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians, said the decision could end
real-life shows taped in hospitals.
Maintaining Privacy in an Always-Watching Future (https://nyti.ms/2kVxD8F)
Feb. 25, 2016
By FARHAD MANJOO
"By and large you get very little constitutional protection for data housed by third parties, and
that's mostly a result of a Supreme Court case from the 1960s -- before email, before search
engines, before social networks," said Chris Soghoian, the principal technologist at the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Google Takes New Steps to Comply With European Privacy Ruling
(https://nyti.ms/2mFqnzq)
Feb. 12, 2016)
By MARK SCOTT
Despite Googles renewed efforts to appease European privacy concerns, it remains unclear
whether the companys actions will be enough to head off the continuing legal disputes from
Europes national data protection authorities.
Google Will Further Block Some European Search Results Will Never Have the Right to
Be Forgotten (https://nyti.ms/2mFqnzq)
Feb. 11, 2016
By MARK SCOTT
To fend off privacy complaints, the search giant will block access to certain links from all of its
search sites when used from the European Union.
Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business (https://nyti.ms/2m5PlY8)
Dec. 29, 2015
By BEN SISARIO
The extensive Wikipedia-like album database has an online marketplace through which nearly
$100 million in records will be sold this year.
Major Cybersecurity Bill Is Set to Clear the Senate (https://nyti.ms/2ozwcuL)
Nov. 27, 2015
By CARL HULSE

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Senators on Tuesday are scheduled to consider multiple proposed changes to the measure before
a final vote, which Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, could try to force
as early as Tuesday evening.
France Rejects Google's Efforts to Limit Application of Privacy Ruling
(https://nyti.ms/2kPBgwS)
Sept. 21, 2014
By MARK SCOTT
Several European privacy regulators, particularly in France, have urged that the so-called right to
be forgotten be applied to all of Google's search domains.
'Right to Be Forgotten' Could Spread (https://nyti.ms/2ktFF92)
Aug. 6, 2015
By FARHAD MANJOO
According to The Guardian, which dug into the source code in a recent Google report to
investigate the basis for the removals, more than 99 percent of the links removed were those that
showed off private personal details, and were not about public figures or news about serious
crimes.
Google Fights Effort to Apply 'Right to Be Forgotten' Ruling Worldwide
(https://nyti.ms/2jJu4Bc)
July 30, 2015
By MARK SCOTT
The search giant said it would not comply with French demands to apply a European data
protection ruling to its global domains.
Sharing Data, But Not Happily (https://nyti.ms/2jNDP1G)
June 4, 2015
By NATASHA SINGER
Many Americans do not think the trade-off of their data for personalized services, giveaways or
discounts is a fair deal, a University of Pennsylvania study found.
Europe's Expanding 'Right to Be Forgotten' (https://nyti.ms/2jNDP1G)
Feb. 20, 2015
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
[...]European regulators and judges are demanding that Google and other companies remove

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links covered by the right-to-be-forgotten principle from all results pages in all countries and
regardless of where the search takes place.
A Comprehensive Concept Map for Adequate Protection and Effective Management of
Personal Information in Networked Chinese Services
(http://search.proquest.com/docview/1744927099/C93B379714B4477CPQ/8?accountid=140
71)
Jan. 1, 2015
By XIAOMI AN; WENLIN BAI; HEPU DENG
This study rationalizes the importance of the identification of personal information for adequate
protection and effective management.
Who Should Own the Internet?
(http://ezproxy.sju.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1773289410?account
id=14071)
Dec. 4, 2014
By JULIAN ASSANGE
The destruction of privacy widens the existing power imbalance between the ruling factions and
everyone else.
Peers Say Right to be Forgotten' Principle Unreasonable
(http://ezproxy.sju.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1550129786?account
id=14071)
Aug. 4, 2014
By ASIA NEWS MONITOR
The European Court of Justice ruled in May that links to irrelevant and outdated data should be
erased on request from searches , sparking a fierce debate about censorship of material and right
to privacy.
Initial Plan From Google for Privacy in Europe (https://nyti.ms/2kxSXAP)
May 31, 2014
By MARK SCOTT
To foster discussion on (removing links in violation of privacy), Google is creating an advisory
panel of privacy experts, regulators, academics and company executives, including the
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who has been a vocal opponent of Europe's legal decision.
Americans Will Never Have the Right to Be Forgotten

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(http://time.com/98554/right-to-be-forgotten/)
May 14, 2014
By VICTOR LUCKERSON
The European Unions highest court has ruled that any of the regions 500 million citizens can
compel Google and other search engines to remove information about them from the companies
search results, even if that information is neither inaccurate nor unlawful.

Europe Continues Wrestling With Online Privacy Rules (https://nyti.ms/2ozOFrd)

June 7, 2013
By JAMES KANTER
What about the economic crisis?' " The proposed law would affect most companies that deal in
personal information -- including pictures posted on social networks or information on what
people buy on retail sites or look for using a search engine.
Europe Plans to Tighten Web Privacy and Apply It to U.S. Companies
(https://nyti.ms/2nBrZJo)
Nov. 10, 2011
By KEVIN J OBRIEN
The European justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, said she planned to insert wording into a
revision of the Continent's main data privacy law that would require non-E.U. companies to
abide by Europe's stricter rules on data collection or face fines and prosecution.
F.B.I. Chief Presses Congress to Act on Data Privacy (https://nyti.ms/2ozZ1ai)
Aug. 21, 2011
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
"The larger question isn't going to be answered in the courts, and shouldn't be," said James B.
Comey Jr., who is fighting Apple to unlock a mass killer's iPhone.
Just Give Me The Right to Be Forgotten (https://nyti.ms/2nBnM8H)
Aug. 21, 2011
By NATASHA SINGER
[...] here I was receiving what I deemed unwanted promotional e-mail -- and a text message --
about the dentist's services via Demandforce, a firm in San Francisco that handles customer
communications for some 11,000 small business including dentists, spas and automotive shops.

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Online Privacy: How U.S. and Europe See Eye to Eye (https://nyti.ms/2nBjCgV)
Aug. 19, 2011
By NEW YORK TIMES ONLINE
Letter concerning how it is not the case that online privacy is being advanced in the European
Union alone.