From the Road-to-Hell-is-Paved-with-Good-Intentions and What-Could-Possibly-Go-Wrong? departments, T. Keung Hui reports: Some Wake County parents are refusing to give permission for teachers to conduct surveys that rate and track the behavioral health of their students. The Wake County school system will have teachers at around 40 schools rate their students on 34 questions, such as how…
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ACLU sues feds to get information about facial-recognition programs
Kate Cox reports: The use of facial recognition has spread from photo albums and social media to airports, doorbells, schools, and law enforcement. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union wants top US agencies to share records detailing what face data they’re collecting and what they’re doing with it. The ACLU in January submitted Freedom of…
India asks WhatsApp to explain privacy breach
Sankalp Phartiyal and Sudarshan Varadhan report: India has asked Facebook-owned WhatsApp to explain the nature of a privacy breach on its messaging platform that has affected some users in the country, Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday. A WhatsApp spokesman was quoted by the Indian Express newspaper on Thursday as saying that Indian…
The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen
Well, sure. We knew this already, right? But it’s nice to see it spelled out with actual research, and Joe Cadillic has sent some along for us. Antonio Regalado spells it all out in an article on MIT Technology Review: A private DNA ancestry database that’s been used by police to catch criminals is a…