Tonya Riley reports: The American Civil Liberties Union sued the National Security Agency Thursday, alleging it failed to disclose documents about its deployment of artificial intelligence under federal public records law. Transparency about the agency’s ramped-up use of AI is critical to allowing the public to understand how their rights are being affected, and the…
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US Senate votes to reauthorize surveillance program
Jasper Ward reports: The U.S. Senate voted late on Friday night to approve the reauthorization of a controversial surveillance program, narrowly missing the midnight expiration of the program. The reauthorization secures what supporters call a key element of the United States’ foreign intelligence-gathering operation. “Democrats and Republicans came together and did the right thing for…
Feds to Review Privacy Practices of 10 Largest Airlines
Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild recently wrote: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recently announced the Department of Transportation (DOT) would undertake a privacy review of the nation’s ten largest airlines. Specifically, they will look at their policies and procedures as they relate to the collection, handling, maintenance and use of passengers’ personal information. “Airline passengers…
Concerns raised over universities signing over students’ private FERPA data to voter data companies
James Samuel reports: A relatively new report outlines how universities nationwide have signed over students’ private FERPA data to a third-party vendor that reviews their personal information to help study college students’ voting trends. The nine-page report describes how a national voting study run out of Tufts’ Institute for Democracy in Higher Education gets university administrators from…