Juliana Gruenwald reports: A vocal critic of proposed changes to rules implementing a 1998 law aimed at protecting children online warned on Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission could open itself to a legal challenge if it follows through with the regulatory amendments. Others attending a forum on the rules predicted that the modifications could…
Category: Youth & Schools
McDonald’s removes networking features in some online games
Cecilia Kang reports: McDonald’s said it has removed social networking features in some of its online games after a privacy advocacy group complained to federal regulators that the restaurant chain was violating child online privacy laws. In a complaint filed last August to the Federal Trade Commission, the Center for Digital Democracy said McDonald’s was…
Aus student data stored for Google ads
Natalie Apostolou reports: Australian students may be spared potentially invasive digital data access from Google following the Privacy Commission’s decision to back the EU’s reforms regarding Google’s new privacy policy. European data protection agencies have given Google a four month deadline to fix its new privacy policy which the agencies claim do not comply with…
Outsourcing Privacy in Higher Education
Steve Kolowich reports: After several years of negotiating, a dozen colleges have reached an agreement with Microsoft that could inspire more institutions to outsource their internal communications and data storage systems to the company and its far-flung servers — even when those systems hold sensitive student and research data. Since 2010 Microsoft had been in talks…