Meghan Ottolini reports: A number of high-profile technology companies signed a voluntary commitment in October to protect student data. According to Boston-based educational technology company Cengage, the Federal Trade Commission has monitored the behavior of several of these companies. The “Pledge to Safeguard Student Privacy” asks companies functioning in education technology to “not sell student…
Category: Govt
UK: MoD requested sensitive pupil data… by mistake
Parents of school children in the U.K. might understandably feel that their children’s privacy is increasingly under attack these past few weeks. First, there was Waltham Forest Council administering questionnaires to students in schools with large Muslim enrollment asking how much the students trust the police and people from another race or religion. And now Schools Week reveals that the…
UK: Careless
The ICO dropped the ball spectacularly on care.data, anxious to enable what they must have thought was an important undertaking by a valued stakeholder. — Tim Turner If you’re an American who thinks HIPAA is too permissive on data sharing without consent, you should learn more about what’s going on in the U.K. Tim Turner writes:…
NASA and Verizon plan to monitor US drone network from phone towers
Here’s another one I missed while I away at the Health Privacy Summit this week, but thankfully, Joe Cadillic sent it to me. Mark Harris reports: Verizon, the US’s largest wireless telecom company, is developing technology with Nasa to direct and monitor America’s growing fleet of civilian and commercial drones from its network of phone towers. According…