Ching Shi Jie reports: Was it a reasonable action to prevent scams or an invasion of privacy? A National University of Singapore (NUS) student is not buying into a restaurant’s explanation that they contacted her school to check if the email she had written to them was sent from a scam account. On Wednesday (Jan…
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German Regulators Publish Cookie Guidance
Ulrike Elteste of Covington and Burling writes: On 22 December 2021, the conference of German data protection supervisory authorities (“DSK”) published its Guidance for Providers of Telemedia Services (Orientierungshilfe für Anbieter von Telemedien). Particularly relevant for providers of websites and mobile applications, the Guidance is largely devoted to the “cookie provision” of the German Telecommunication and Telemedia…
“Big Tech’s Brazen HIPAA Violations Are Unethical, Immoral, and Legally Actionable”
Dr. David Lenihan has an OpEd on CPO that has me shaking my head “no.” He writes, in part: While one might think that U.S. doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, insurers, medical service providers, and healthcare/wellness facilities are the primary entities that could potentially leak, share, or exploit private patient data, the truth is that the most…
Help Us Investigate the Ed Tech Industry
Help Us Investigate the Ed Tech Industry There’s a booming business in classroom software—and in some cases, the data on students that it produces By: Todd Feathers The educational technology industry is booming. Software is becoming a ubiquitous part of the classroom experience, and as it does, the companies selling these programs to schools are…