Mark Keierleber reports: Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to clarify how schools should monitor students’ online activities, arguing in a new report that educators’ widespread use of digital surveillance tools could trample students’ civil rights. They also want the U.S. Education Department to start collecting data on…
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Murder probes get data-privacy ground rules from EU Court of Justice
Bloomberg reports: Murder investigators in the European Union avoided a blanket ban on the use of suspects’ phone records even as the bloc’s top court confirmed a prohibition on the retention of swathes of citizens’ communications data. The EU Court of Justice said on Tuesday that EU law “precludes the general and indiscriminate scooping up…
Senators Markey, Warren Investigation Finds Edtech Student Surveillance Platforms Need Urgent Federal Action to Protect Students
Washington (March 30, 2022) – United States Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today released the findings of the October 2021investigation they opened into four educational technology companies — Gaggle.net, Bark Technologies, GoGuardian, and Securly Inc. — regarding their use of artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic systems to monitor students’ online activity. The senators…
Police Use of Forensic Genealogy Tech Raises Privacy Concerns
James Halpin reports: The bound and gagged body of Marise Ann Chiverella was still warm to the touch when police arrived at the refuse-strewn stripping hole in Hazle Twp. on the afternoon of March 18, 1964. It had only been a few hours since the 9-year-old third-grader from Hazleton had been beaten, raped and strangled…