From the FTC: Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and profiting from information about people. Technologies essential to everyday life also enable near constant surveillance of people’s private lives. The volume of data collected exposes people to identity thieves and hackers. Mass surveillance has heightened the risks and stakes of errors, deception, manipulation,…
Federal judge tosses lawyer’s suit over cellphone border search
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A federal judge in Texas has ruled against an immigration lawyer who contended that the government violated his constitutional rights when it seized his cellphone at the border. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas dismissed the lawsuit filed by Texas immigration lawyer Adam A. Malik in…
Illuminate Ed Pulled from ‘Student Privacy Pledge’ After Massive Data Breach
Mark Keierleber writes: Embattled education technology vendor Illuminate Education has become the first-ever company to get booted from the Student Privacy Pledge, an unprecedented move that follows a massive data breach affecting millions of students and allegations the company misrepresented its security safeguards. The Future of Privacy Forum, which created the self-regulatory effort nearly a…
Victory! Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections for Student’s Off-Campus Social Media Post
Yes, this is a protected speech/First Amendment issue, but I have always considered attempts to regulate student activity when youth are not at school an over-reach and attempted abridgment of a child’s rights unless the off-campus speech or activity was a threat to do something on school premises. And yes, I realize the courts have…