Robert Barnes reports: Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday rejected a plea from a group of Indiana University students to stop the university’s requirement that all students be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Barrett, who received the request because she is the Supreme Court justice tasked with emergency petitions from that region of the country, did…
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EPIC Sues Postal Service to Halt Use of Facial Recognition, Social Media Monitoring
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service to block the use of facial recognition and social media monitoring tools under the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP). EPIC’s case challenges the Postal Service’s failure to conduct and publish the Privacy Impact Assessment mandated by the E-Government Act before procuring and using…
Dutch education IT crisis averted as Google agrees to ‘major privacy improvements’
Tim Anderson reports: Google has agreed to “major privacy improvements” following a threat to ban the use of Google Workspace in education by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA). In May the DPA warned that eight out of ten “high data protection risks” in Google’s productivity suite, Workspace, still remained despite the company’s response. Now, after what…
Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
Yesterday, I posted a news item from AP without comment, but mentally I was yelling, “No, no, no. HELL no!” Since then, EFF has articiulated the issue much better than my mental screaming. India McKinney and Erica Portnoy write: Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features…