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…
Category: Govt
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…
Belgian Privacy Commission Releases 2017 Annual Activity Report
From Hunton: On May 2, 2018, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2017 (the “Annual Report”), highlighting its main accomplishments for the past year. In 2017, the Belgian DPA focused on the following topics: EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The Belgian DPA issued a number of documents…