Kathleen Styles, the Chief Privacy Officer at the U.S. Department of Education, writes: Protecting students’ privacy and ensuring colleges and universities promote a safe and healthy campus for their students has never been more important. As Chief Privacy Officer at ED, I help to lead the Department of Education in overseeing the administration of FERPA…
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On the passing of a great privacy advocate
We have lost one of the truly great ones. Like so many others, I was stunned to hear this morning that Caspar Bowden had passed away. I first met Caspar at a Privacy Law Scholars Conference years ago. He sat down next to me at a workshop and we started chatting. He was still Chief Privacy…
Covington Webinar: The EU General Data Protection Regulation – What’s Next and What It Means For Your Business
From Covington & Burling: As we recently covered on this blog, on June 15, the Council of Ministers of the EU reached a long-awaited ‘common approach’ on a revised text of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Covington will be running a webinar on July 1, repeated on July 2 to accommodate attendees from different timezones, at…
Mandatory vacation?
Well, I planned to do some news updates while I’m on vacation, but it turns out I couldn’t get a wifi connection at my friend’s home – or an ethernet one. Not sure why my American Apple products are having trouble here and BT support threw up their hands after 49 minutes. So… updating will…