Kelvin Chan reports: … Privacy4Cars offers a free auto privacy labeling service at vehicleprivacyreport.com that can summarize what your car could be tracking. Owners can punch in their car’s Vehicle Identification Number, which then pulls up the automaker’s data privacy practices, such as whether the car collects location data and whether it’s given to insurers, data brokers…
Attorney General James and Multistate Coalition Secure $5.1 Million from Education Software Company for Failing to Protect Students’ Data
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that they have secured $5.1 million from educational technology company Illuminate Education, Inc. (Illuminate) for failing to protect students’ data. Illuminate provides software to schools and school districts across the country to track students’ attendance…
EU Parliament committee votes to advance controversial Europol data sharing proposal
Suzanne Smalley reports: Lawmakers in the European Union’s Parliament on Tuesday voted to greenlight a proposal which would allow Europol to expand data sharing and biometric data collection as part of its effort to fight human trafficking and migrant smuggling. Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE), which approved the package, will now send the proposal to a full…
DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says
Ashley Belanger reports: Civil and digital rights experts are horrified by a proposed rule change that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to collect a wide range of sensitive biometric data on all immigrants, without age restrictions, and store that data throughout each person’s “lifecycle” in the immigration system. If adopted, the rule change would allow…