Cameron Evans of Microsoft writes: How would you react if you learned that an outside agency came to your child’s school and, without your knowledge or consent, collected confidential data about your child and then used the data they gathered to make money for themselves? Would you be upset? As a parent, I believe the…
Category: U.S.
Calo: How To Regulate Drones
Ryan Calo writes: I started to think about the intersection of robotics and the law in earnest a few years ago when I left private practice. In 2011, I came to the conclusion that drones had the potential to create a new Warren and Brandeis moment. Some combination of our visceral reaction to robotic technology,…
Harvard University administrators secretly searched deans’ email accounts, hunting for media leak
Mary Carmichael reports: Harvard University central administrators secretly searched the email accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about the school’s sprawling cheating case, according to several Harvard officials interviewed by the Globe. The resident deans sit on Harvard’s Administrative Board, the committee charged with handling the cheating…
Congress Tries, Yet Again, To Fix Outdated Electronic Privacy Law
Mike Masnick writes: … This week, however, ECPA reform has been brought back once again, this time in the House, by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, along with Reps. Ted Poe and Suzan DelBene. The proposed bill, called The Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act, is embedded below. It’s a strong bill, meaning law enforcement folks are likely to flip…