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…
Category: Govt
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…
UK: Inquiry into phone and email snoopers
Christopher Hope reports: Britain’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies are facing an inquiry from Whitehall’s snooping watchdog into whether they are collecting too many private telephone and internet records, The Telegraph can disclose. The investigation by Sir Anthony May, the Interception of Communications Commissioner, will start this year and comes after he told MPs he was worried…
What Happens When You Marry The NSA’s Surveillance Database With Amazon’s Personalized Marketing?
Glyn Moody writes: By now, most people who shop online are aware of the way in which companies try to tailor their offers based on your previous purchasing and browsing history. Being followed by strangely relevant ads everywhere is bad enough, but what if the government started using the same approach in its communications with…