Rachel Silberstein reports: Local educators say the technology is working; vaping in the high school bathrooms is down. Niskayuna and South Colonie school districts are among those in New York installing devices in bathrooms that digitally detect vapor, sending real-time text messages to school administrators as part of comprehensive anti-vaping initiatives. The New York-based Soter…
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German Telecommunications Company Fined 9.5 Million Euros for GDPR Violation
Ulrike Elteste and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington and Burling write: On December 9, 2019, the German Federal Data Protection Supervisory Authority (BfDI) imposed a 9.55 million Euro fine on the telecommunications company 1&1 Telecom GmbH. The BfDI found that the authentication procedures used by 1&1’s customer helpline were insufficient and failed to satisfy the requirements…
We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.
Charlie Savage reports: When a long-awaited inspector general report about the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation became public this week, partisans across the political spectrum mined it to argue about whether President Trump falsely smeared the F.B.I. or was its victim. But the report was also important for reasons that had nothing to do with Mr. Trump….
Hacker hurls racial slurs at family after breaking into home Ring camera
Meaghan Wray reports: One Florida family wasn’t even safe in their own home after a hacker took over their surveillance camera on Sunday night. Josefine Brown, who lives in Cape Coral, Fla., was at home with her family when a loud alarm suddenly began to sound from their Ring security camera and a voice began spewing racial slurs. In…