From Papers, Please! Four days before a Federal judge was scheduled to hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by four Muslim US citizens who were placed on the US government’s “no-fly” list to try to pressure them into becoming informants for the FBI, the government has notified the plaintiffs in the case that all of them have been removed…
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Privacy Advocates Walk Out in Protest Over U.S. Facial-Recognition Code of Conduct
Dan Froomkin writes: Technology industry lobbyists have so thoroughly hijacked the Commerce Department process for developing a voluntary code of conduct for the use of facial recognition technology that nine privacy advocates involved withdrew in protest on Monday. “At a base minimum, people should be able to walk down a public street without fear that…
Sex, lies and debt potentially exposed by U.S. data hack
Arshad Mohammed and Joseph Menn report: When a retired 51-year-old military man disclosed in a U.S. security clearance application that he had a 20-year affair with his former college roommate’s wife, it was supposed to remain a secret between him and the government. The disclosure last week that hackers had penetrated a database containing such…
FTC Monitors Behavior Of Vendors That Signed Student Privacy Pledge
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…