Gary Leff writes: CLEAR is a paid program that takes your biometrics and expedites security screening, mostly at airports. They are part-owned by Delta and United, and have a partnership with American Express. Since you go through a biometric ID check, you usually don’t have to show ID at the security checkpoint, although you randomly…
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Privacy Suit Covered by Insurance Policy, Illinois Court Rules
Jorja Siemons reports: An insurance company has a duty to defend a supermarket facing a former employee’s allegations that it violated her privacy rights, an Illinois federal court said in an opinion Thursday. Society Insurance had asked the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to declare that it owed no insurance coverage to Cermak…
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
Dell Cameron reports: An effort by United States lawmakers to prevent government agencies from domestically tracking citizens without a search warrant is facing opposition internally from one of its largest intelligence services. Republican and Democratic aides familiar with ongoing defense-spending negotiations in Congress say officials at the National Security Agency (NSA) have approached lawmakers charged…
Hobbs has questions about data breach that exposed ESA student info
Gloria Rebecca Gomez reports: A data breach exposed the personal information of thousands of Arizona students enrolled in the state’s school voucher program, according to Gov. Katie Hobbs, but the state’s top education official says it’s not a problem. Earlier this month, ClassWallet, the online financial administration platform that handles payments for Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship…