Bob Sullivan reports: The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country, has assembled what may be the most powerful and thorough private database of Americans’ personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records covering more than one-third of U.S. adults. Some of the information…
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UPDATE: Foursquare revises TOS; nyms allowed
I’ve been checking Foursquare’s site occasionally today as they indicated that a change in their Terms of Service was forthcoming. Now it’s here, and it’s great. As I blogged earlier today, Foursquare had implemented their new “full name” privacy policy, announced last month, even though it seemed to be in conflict with their media statements that suggested…
Amassing Student Data and Dissipating Privacy Rights
by Marc Rotenberg and Khaliah Barnes Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, D.C. He teaches Information Privacy Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Khaliah Barnes is Administrative Law Counsel at EPIC. From test-performance scores to student financial data to statewide longitudinal data systems, there has been a dramatic increase in…
Bob Iger Calls MagicBand Criticism “Ludicrous”
Dominic Patten reports: Bob Iger today told a Massachusetts congressman that his privacy issue concerns about new technology being introduced at Disney theme parks are bunk. “We are offended by the ludicrous and utterly ill-informed assertion in your letter dated January 24, 2013, that we would in any way haphazardly or recklessly introduce a program…