Following a public comment period and review of iVeriFly’s proposed Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule verifiable parental consent method application, the Federal Trade Commission determined it was unnecessary to approve the company’s specific method. In a letter to iVeriFly, the FTC stated that the company’s proposed method is a variation on existing methods already recognized in…
Category: Govt
N.Y. man’s prosecution in terrorism case relied partly on surveillance done without a warrant
Ellen Nakashima reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday notified a Brooklyn man serving a 15-year sentence for supporting terrorism that evidence in his case derived from surveillance conducted without an individual warrant. Agron Hasbajrami, sentenced in January 2013, is the third criminal defendant since the fall to be told that his prosecution involved surveillance under…
U.S. Education Department Issues Guidance on Student Data Privacy
Benjamin Herold writes: Seeking to help schools and districts better protect students’ privacy, the U.S. Department of Education released new guidance Tuesday on the proper use, storage, and security of the massive amounts of data being generated by new, online educational resources. The guidelines, produced by the department’s privacy technical assistance center, highlight the rapidly evolving, often-murky…
Prez Obama cyber-guru: Think your data is safe in an EU cloud? The NSA will raid your servers
Jack Clark reports: A former White House security advisor has suggested that you, dear reader, are naive if you think hosting data outside of the US will protect a business from the NSA. “NSA and any other world-class intelligence agency can hack into databases even if they not in the US,” said former White House…