Cassie White reports: A New South Wales school has moved to reassure parents that new student fingerprint scanners cannot be hacked into and no personal information will be stored in the system. Gosford’s Henry Kendall High School is introducing a biometric system which assigns each student a number by creating a unique code based on…
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Women secretly filmed on Dalhousie campus
Dalhousie University security staff say someone is secretly filming women on the Studley Campus and posting the videos to an online sharing site. In an email sent to students Monday afternoon, Mike Burns, director of security, said women were “surreptitiously captured on video.” “The videos were taken without consent of the subjects and appear to…
EFF Urges EU Data Protection Authorities to Call for the Repeal of the EU Data Retention Directive
Eva Galperin comments: This week, EFF is taking part in the 32nd Annual Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, where we urged the Privacy Authorities to call for the repeal of the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive, which requires Internet service providers operating in Europe to retain telecom and Internet traffic data about all of…
US ambassador questioned on EU data sharing
From BBC, this video of a 3-hour session on transatlantic data sharing: