Kelly Field reports: The Education Department will issue a final rule today [yesterday – Dissent] that will make it easier for states to track students’ academic progress and evaluate education programs. The rule allows state and local education officials to share student information more widely without violating federal privacy law. It also makes lenders, guarantors, and other…
Category: Laws
Keeping Data Off U.S. Servers Won’t Prevent the Government from Snooping
Rebecca Greenfield writes: If the U.S. wants to get a hold of foreign data in any cloud — American or not — it has legal ways of getting it. The PATRIOT Act, or at least the idea of it, is giving foreign cloud computing firms a competitive advantage over American services, reports Politico’s David Saled Rauf. Foreign…
House Committee Rushing to Approve Dangerous “Information Sharing” Bill
Kevin Bankston and Lee Tien of EFF write: We’re for better network, computer, and device security. Unfortunately, “cybersecurity” bills often go off track—case in point: the “ Internet kill switch. ” The latest example comes courtesy of the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee. Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) are introducing…
Best Buy Served with Class Action Lawsuit for Violating Drivers’ Privacy Protection Act
From their press release: Leopold~Kuvin, P.A.filed a class action lawsuit (Case# 9:11-cv-81292-KLR) in the Southern District Court of Florida today against Best Buy Corporation for violating the Drivers’ Privacy Protection Act or “DPPA”, a federal statute that protects the privacy of personal information assembled by State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMVs). The lawsuit alleges Best…