Two potential class action lawsuits filed under the Washington Privacy Act caught my eye. Ford Motor Co. Accused of Violating Privacy Law by Storing Drivers Private Conversations and Releasing Them to Cops and a Private Company Anne Bradley-Smith reports: Ford Motor Company uses its infotainment system to secretly download and store drivers’ private text conversations,…
Category: U.S.
Why a Virginia judge got it wrong on student COVID-19 data
Megan Rhyne is executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit alliance formed to promote expanded access to government records, meetings and other proceedings at the state and local level. She has a commentary in the Virginia Mercury that begins: Last week a Rockingham County Circuit Judge ruled in favor of James…
It’ll be October before even half of Vermont’s school districts begin surveillance testing
Lola Duffort reports: Surveillance testing has been touted by Vermont officials as a cornerstone of its Covid-19 mitigation efforts in K-12 schools. But only a little more than one-third of Vermont’s public school districts and a quarter of its private schools will have actually begun testing by the end of September, according to figures provided…
One U.S. state stands out in restricting corporate use of biometrics: Illinois
Michael Berens reports: When night fell, a clerk at a bustling 24-hour MotoMart flipped a switch from behind the counter. Electromagnetic locks sealed the doorway. A window sign, now illuminated in red, warned “facial recognition technology in use” and directed customers to “look up at the camera.” […] Just a few miles away, across the…