A state lawmaker from Sioux Falls says that information taken from citizens when they get their driver’s licenses could allow the federal government to track people for nefarious purposes, raising privacy concerns. Republican Rep. Lora Hubbel is so worried about the issue that she is drafting a bill for the legislative session that begins in…
Category: Laws
FL: Woman finds her Social Security number written on parking ticket
I’ve covered this type of situation before, but it’s always useful to remind people that risk is all around us. From KUSA in Florida: Most people don’t like coming back to their car to find a parking ticket, but what one local woman found written on a ticket she received came as even more of…
U.S. Dept. of Education expands data sharing. What could possibly go wrong, right?
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…
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…