Benjamin Herold reports: The U.S. Education Department failed to conduct timely, effective investigations of potential violations of the nation’s main student-data-privacy law, allowing a years-long backlog of unresolved cases to pile up without any mechanism for effectively tracking the number or status of the complaints it received. That’s according to a scathing new audit from the department’s…
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Girard threatened with legal action over student privacy issue
Carol Robidoux reports on an interesting FERPA privacy case out of Manchester, New Hampshire: A school board member who used social media and his public access TV show, “Girard at Large,” to expound on a student privacy issue that arose during a Nov. 13 school committee meeting has been threatened with legal action. A letter…
Google Attacked by EU Consumer Groups Over Location Tracking
Stephanie Bodoni and Natalia Drozdiak report: Google runs the risk of hefty fines from the European Union’s beefed-up data-protection watchdogs after consumer groups accused the search-engine giant of abusing tools that track users’ location. Seven European consumer organizations on Tuesday said they would file complaints with their national regulators, who now have powers to levy…
New Law Could Give U.K. Unconstitutional Access to Americans’ personal information, human rights groups warn
Trevor Aaronson and Sam Biddle report: Nine human rights and civil liberties organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department today objecting to a potential agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom that would give British law enforcement broad access to data held by U.S. technology companies. The possible agreement stems from the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use…