This Privacy Tracker weekly roundup explores some of the federal privacy legislation proposed recently. TechNewsDaily suggests that, as part of the fallout from the National Security Agency (NSA) leak, there has been a “surge in proposed privacy legislation concerning devices and their growing monitoring capabilities.” In addition to the Texas e-mail law and action in Maine to restrict drone use, federal lawmakers are working toward vehicle and TV consumer privacy bills, and others are working to restrict government collection of data. Whether due to the NSA revelations or not, anti-surveillance does seem to be the latest trend in privacy law.
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