Grant Gross reports on yesterday’s hearing in the Senate: Congress may need to pass legislation that limits the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said Wednesday. The growing use of facial recognition technology raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns, said Sen. Al Franken, a…
Category: Laws
EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit
Matt Zimmerman writes: Since the first national security letter statute was passed in 1986, the FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of such letters seeking private telecommunications and financial records of Americans without any prior approval from courts. Indeed, for the period between 2003 and 2006 alone, almost 200,000 requests for private customer information were sought…
Dust off the proposal to revise ECPA
You can ‘t see it, but I generally stick out my tongue at stories or commentaries that talk about the “end of privacy” or “lessons learned.” But there’s an editorial in the NY Times that you might want to read as it attempts to breathe new life into a bill revising ECPA that had been…
Do your child’s FERPA rights depend on what state you live in? It seems like it…
I really think that SCOTUS is going to need to hear at least one FERPA case and rule on whether the federal law protecting the privacy of education records trumps states’ open records laws if the state accepts federal education dollars. In Oklahoma, we saw the state’s education department deciding that they could accept federal…