Weekly Review of Privacy in the News - Week Ended 2/7/2014

New York Post publishes article titled the United States of Paranoia:
http://nypost.com/2014/02/01/welcome-to-the-united-states-of-paranoia/

The US forces New Zealand to override it's own privacy rules for Americans living in New Zealand:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9681670/Move-to-alter-privacy-laws-to-help-US

Feds to decide on standards for car to car communications:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TALKING_CARS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-03-10-48-29

Belarus government may have put malicious code in the Obamacare website, healthcare.gov, possibly comprising the personal information of millions of Americans:
http://freebeacon.com/the-belarusian-connection/

New app will allow Google Glass users to identify you just by looking at you:
http://www.eonline.com/news/507361/just-when-you-thought-google-glass-couldn-t-get-creepier-new-app-allows-strangers-to-id-you-just-by-looking-at-you  Senator has concerns: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/197580-franken-questions-facial-recognition-app

Surveillance technology can track thousands of people for many hours at a time:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/new-surveillance-technology-can-track-everyone-in-an-area-for-several-hours-at-a-time/2014/02/05/82f1556e-876f-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_print.html

States launch effort to rein in government surveillance:
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/ap_029168fec16a42078c76fa035d4a3e1d

4 in 10 government security breaches go undetected (or at least unreported):
http://freebeacon.com/report-4-in-10-government-security-breaches-go-undetected/

Twitter threatens to sue the Obama administration in an effort to release more information to the public about how much data the company is forced to turn over to the government:
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/197646-twitter-considers-legal-fight-to-disclose-docs

Snowden leaks went beyond NSA disclosures to what angry senior officials called "very highly classified" information:
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/02/05/lawmakers-disturbed-and-angered-after-classified-briefing-reveals-extent-of-snowden-defense-leaks/

NYPD testing Google Glass:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/05/nypd-google-glass/

Tech giants hire lobbyest for surveillance reform at the NSA:
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/techs-biggest-players-hire-first-nsa-lobbyist-103214.html

$20 electronic gadget can let a hacker or anyone else take complete control of your vehicle:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2553026/The-gadget-hack-CAR-Terrifying-12-tool-remotely-control-headlights-locks-steering-brakes.html

NSA claims to only collect a third of American telephone call metadata and has trouble with cellphone collection:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/us/politics/nsa-program-gathers-data-on-a-third-of-nations-calls-officials-say.html