Interfax reports: Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has granted a motion by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) against Google LLC and YouTube by finding them guilty in a breach of privacy law. “The respondents’ actions have been found unlawful and violating the people’s right to personal and family…
Category: Youth & Schools
New York bans facial recognition in schools until at least 2022
Colin Wood reports: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation on Tuesday making his state the first to ban the use of facial recognition technology and other biometric technology in both public and private K-12 schools. The new law places a moratorium on schools purchasing or using biometric technology until at least July 1, 2022…
2,000 Parents Demand Major Academic Publisher Drop Proctorio Surveillance Tech
Edward Ongweso Jr. reports: On Friday, digital rights group Fight for the Future unveiled an open letter signed by 2,000 parents calling on McGraw-Hill Publishing to end its relationship with Proctorio, one of many proctoring apps that offers services that digital rights groups have called “indistinguishable from spyware.” Proctorio has managed to quickly get itself a terrible, horrible,…
U.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Used to Investigate Terrorists
Tom McKay and Dhruv Mehrotra report: In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to…