Kelly Field reports: The Education Department will issue a final rule today [yesterday – Dissent] that will make it easier for states to track students’ academic progress and evaluate education programs. The rule allows state and local education officials to share student information more widely without violating federal privacy law. It also makes lenders, guarantors, and other…
Category: U.S.
Keeping Data Off U.S. Servers Won’t Prevent the Government from Snooping
Rebecca Greenfield writes: If the U.S. wants to get a hold of foreign data in any cloud — American or not — it has legal ways of getting it. The PATRIOT Act, or at least the idea of it, is giving foreign cloud computing firms a competitive advantage over American services, reports Politico’s David Saled Rauf. Foreign…
House Committee Rushing to Approve Dangerous “Information Sharing” Bill
Kevin Bankston and Lee Tien of EFF write: We’re for better network, computer, and device security. Unfortunately, “cybersecurity” bills often go off track—case in point: the “ Internet kill switch. ” The latest example comes courtesy of the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee. Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) are introducing…
The Department Of Homeland Security Wants All The Information It Has On You Accessible From One Place
Kashmir Hill reports: Information sharing (or lack thereof) between intelligence agencies has been a sensitive topic in the U.S. After 9/11, there was a push to create fusion centers so that local, state, and federal agencies could share intelligence, allowing the FBI, for example, to see if the local police have anything in their files on a particular…