Amnesty International writes: Viet Nam’s proposed new Cybersecurity Law will grant the government unbridled power to police the last safe space for freedom of expression in the country, if passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday, said Amnesty International. The law would give sweeping new powers to the Vietnamese authorities, allowing them to force technology…
Category: Govt
In groundbreaking decision, judge halts collection of for-profit student debts
In a landmark decision for defrauded students of Corinthian Colleges, a U.S. District judge late Friday stopped the Department of Education from applying its “average earnings rule” to cheated former students of Corinthian Colleges, and prevented the Department from collecting on the plaintiffs’ loans. The ruling enjoins the Department of Education from using its partial…
Amazon’s plan to help police identify citizen’s in real-time and predict crimes
Joe Cadillic writes: Two days ago NPR revealed that the Orlando Police Department is using Amazon’s facial recognition to identify people’s faces. Earlier this year, the ACLU sent an FOI request to the police department asking for more information about Amazon Rekognition. The title the police gave to the ACLU’s FOI request is both telling…
Who’s in charge of the REAL-ID database?
Ed Hasbrouck writes: The state of Alaska has sent us a whopper of a “the records you have requested do not exist” response to one of our attempts to find out about government oversight (or lack thereof) of the private contractor operating the national ID database created to implement the REAL-ID Act of 2005. Here’s…