Pl share! Letter to Congress in opposition to privacy invasive College Transparency Act that wd allow feds to track every college student thru life; letter signed by @parents4privacy @ACLU @Fairplay @EPICprivacy @ConsumerFed @Network4publiced & others https://t.co/Rz5Ye6W4Lv pic.twitter.com/5f3g7fqrwu — leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) March 14, 2022 Direct link to larger view of letter. Update: As I discussed…
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Texas Blocked From Investigating Transgender Kids’ Parents For Child Abuse
Andrew DeMillo of AP reports: A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth. District Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to compel the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate. Read more…
Facial recognition: Italian SA fines Clearview AI €20 million; Bans use of biometric data and monitoring of Italian data subjects
From Italy’s data protection agency, this press release today: The Italian SA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) fined the US-based company Clearview AI EUR 20 million after finding it applied what amounted to biometric monitoring techniques also to individuals in the Italian territory. The company reportedly owns a database including over 10 billion…
More news and an important new book on breaches!!
It’s so hard to keep up with news these days, so in case you missed these developments: Public Health Agency of Canada didn’t act transparently when it proposed to access, then eventually viewed, Canadians’ mobility data, the House of Commons’ Ethics committee heard in February. Read more at iPolitics. Yahoo shutters email service in China….