Steve Lash reports: Parents cannot challenge in court a Maryland county school board’s confidential gender-identity-support system for students because the parents failed to allege their children had availed themselves of the system, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday. In its 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said the parents…
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A passenger used a boarding pass found in the trash. CLEAR escorted them through airport security.
Because no one could have possibly foreseen this, right? Sent along by Joe Cadillic, and as reported by Alex Daugherty And Oriana Pawlyk: CLEAR, which allows airline passengers to pay to be whisked through airport security checkpoints, is under increasing scrutiny from lawmakers following two previously unreported security incidents — including one where someone was able…
Pepsi Faces Biometric Privacy Suit Over Employee Voiceprints
Jorja Siemons reports: PepsiCo Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action alleging its collection and storage of workers’ voice data broke Illinois’ biometric privacy law. William Hoskin, a former employee at Pepsi’s Chicago distribution center, was never informed by the soda maker that the voice recognition software he was required to use at work…
PPSA Asks Court to Compel Agencies to Search for Documents About Private Data Purchases from Accounts of 110 Members of Congress
The Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA) is asking a DC federal court to compel the top federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies to search for records related to how they acquire and use the private, personal information of 110 Members of Congress purchased from third-party data brokers. In a Freedom of Information Act…