The U.S. Education Department announced on Monday that it would propose new regulations governing student privacy rights in the next several weeks. In an announcement in the Federal Register, the department said that it would revise rules to carry out the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, with two goals in mind. One would be…
Category: Laws
VT: Workers’ privacy under scrutiny
Peter Hirschfeld reports: Senate lawmakers have voted to halt the Douglas administration’s plans to monitor the web-viewing habits of thousands of state employees. In a unanimous voice vote this week, the Senate approved an amendment, attached to the budget bill, that would forbid human resources managers from tracking the Internet activity of Vermont employees working…
TransUnion battling attempts to ban employment credit checks
Julie Wernau reports: TransUnion, the Chicago-based credit reporting agency controlled by the powerful Pritzker family, is fighting to preserve the use of credit checks in employment screening, even as several states, including Illinois, threaten to outlaw the practice in most circumstances as discriminatory. […] TransUnion has publicly defended credit checks as a way for employers…
Should you own your own data?
Andrew Orlowski writes: Privacy campaigners have long advocated that we should own our data, and we should be able to do what we like with it. So why has an attempt to put this into law caused a minor panic? A Michigan Senator has introduced a Bill giving individuals the right to request the removal…