Kenneth Terrell of the AARP reports: As many as 5,400 workers at Yale University were forced to either share their private medical information with their employer or pay an expensive fine, according to a class action lawsuit AARP Foundation filed today on their behalf. The lawsuit argues that by charging some employees $1,300 annually —…
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City Halls Use Facial Recognition To Blacklist And Ban Residents
Joe Cadillic writes: I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Local governments and private corporations are using facial recognition to secretly blacklist people, despite having no valid reason to do so. A recent article in the Idaho Statesman and in the video above, prove that local governments are using facial recognition…
Microsoft Office 365: Banned in German schools over privacy fears
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….
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…