Alex Byers and Erin Mershon report: Privacy advocates and trade groups are clashing over how to build consumer protections into the fast-growing data broker industry as they await the results of two long-running investigations that could shape Washington’s approach to the sector. Both the Federal Trade Commission and Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee launched…
Month: November 2013
Parent Opposition Slims Student Data Collection
Evelyn B. Stacey reports: After months of parent protests, Colorado’s Department of Education ended its contract with controversial technology organization inBloom in November, shortly after Jefferson County, Colorado’s school board cut ties with it for the same reason by a 7-1 vote. This makes New York the sole remaining state to continue its relationship with…
European hotels edge toward universal reporting of guests to police
Simon Davies writes: The next time you check into a hotel in any European country – or indeed in many countries outside the EU – chances are you’ll be required to fill out a guest registration form. At the very least this form will demand information such as passport number, nationality, home address, telephone number,…
NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software
Floor Boon, Steven Derix and Huib Modderkolk report: The American intelligence service – NSA – infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by former NSA-employee Edward Snowden and seen by this newspaper, prove this. A management presentation dating from 2012 explains how the NSA collects…