by American Educational Research Association U.S. schools and school districts have shared an estimated 4.9 million posts that include identifiable images of students on public Facebook pages, unintentionally putting student privacy at risk, according to a new study. Around 726,000 of these posts are thought to identify one or more students by their first and…
Internet Impact Brief: Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022
Authors: Neeti Biyani, Pranav Bhaskar Tiwari, Akriti Bopanna, Internet Society Prateek Waghre, Anushka Jain, Internet Freedom Foundation Contributors: Rajnesh D. Singh, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Carl Gahnberg, Ryan Polk, Susannah Gray, Internet Society Abstract In September 2022, the Government of India’s Department of Telecommunications released a draft of the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 for public consultation….
Abortion rights on state ballots: here are the results so far
Sharon Bernstein reports: Voters in five states considered abortion-related ballot measures on Tuesday, initiatives that have taken on new urgency since the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide. Here are the results as Reuters reports: Voters in the battleground state of Michigan backed a ballot initiative declaring…
‘We were taken for fools’: MEPs fume at UK data protection snub
Vincent Manancourt reports: A key European Union lawmaker has described meetings with the U.K. government over the country’s data protection reform plans as “appalling.” French MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield said she felt “we were taken for fools” after Digital Minister Julia Lopez quit the meeting halfway through, U.K. Home Office ministers didn’t bother to meet them and the U.K.’s…