Cathrin Schaer reports: Schools in the central German state of Hesse have been have been told it’s now illegal to use Microsoft Office 365. The state’s data-protection commissioner has ruled that using the popular cloud platform’s standard configuration exposes personal information about students and teachers “to possible access by US officials”. Read more on ZDNet….
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CBP settles lawsuit challenging demand for ID from arriving domestic airline passengers
From Papers, Please!: The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division of DHS has agreed to a settlement with passengers who were ordered to show ID documents before they were allowed to leave a Delta Air Lines plane after it arrived in New York after a flight from San Francisco. Nine of the passengers on…
Revealed: This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops
Caroline Haskins reports: Palantir is one of the most significant and secretive companies in big data analysis. The company acts as an information management service for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, corporations like JP Morgan and Airbus, and dozens of other local, state, and federal agencies. It’s been described by scholars as a “secondary surveillance network,”…
Facebook $5 Billion U.S. Privacy Settlement Approved by FTC
It looks like Bloomberg beat the FTC to breaking the news. David McLaughlin and Daniel Stoller report: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a record privacy settlement against Facebook Inc. requiring the social-media company to pay about $5 billion to resolve an investigation stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The FTC’s settlement was approved…