Eric Jochim of MTN News reports: The Montana Supreme Court has denied author Jon Krakauer access to education records he sought from the Montana University System. Justices overturned, in part, a lower court ruling granting Krakauer access to redacted records. […] Justices found in their second ruling “that a student’s enhanced privacy interest is not…
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Wikipedia co-founder calls for social media strike over privacy issues
Hannah Frishberg reports: “Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires.” Thus begins Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger’s “Declaration of Digital Independence,” a new manifesto of sorts advocating for the decentralization of “Big Social Media.” He is asking for digital dissenters to sign it — and strike. In a separate blog post, Sanger calls for…
With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2 million text messages
Zack Whittaker reports: For four months in 2018, authorities in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show. The wiretap, granted by a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas, was granted as part of a narcotics investigation and became the federal wiretap with the…
NYS Education department blocks testing of facial recognition software
WIVB reports some more good news in the pushback again facial recognition being used: The New York State Education Department has blocked the testing of facial recognition software in Lockport schools. This comes just weeks after the Lockport City School District was set to start testing the Aegis system. The superintendent says only certain people…