The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday urged people to help Iranian protesters “safely communicate and receive information tdespite he barriers being established by Iranian authorities.” EFF notes that one way people can help is to set up a Tor (“The Onion Router”) relay or a Tor bridge. Internet users in Iran are using Tor to…
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Players’ Privacy Law Is Brought Into Question
Universities that deny requests for records about athletes may be interpreting too broadly a federal education law that protects the privacy of students’ academic records, a federal education official said Monday. The official, Paul Gammill, said the Department of Education was taking a closer look at how universities carried out the privacy law, known as…
Gartner: Firms still playing privacy catch-up
Even though most enterprises have created a position to oversee privacy in their IT operations, many of those programs miss the target, often owing to budget shortfalls, according to an industry analyst. “Privacy programs tend to be underfunded,” Gartner’s Arabella Hallawell said here at the research firm’s annual Information Security Summit. […] Privacy issues, concerning…
SCOTUS denies review of California financial law
In the second privacy-related case to be denied review by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) today, the court denied review of the California Financial Information Privacy Act. The law provides consumers with greater privacy safeguards for financial data by requiring opt-in for sharing of information, easy-to-find and use opt-out provisions, and limitations on the sale of…