A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you’ve probably never heard of By: Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng Today’s cars are akin to smartphones, with apps connected to the internet that collect huge amounts of data, some of which is highly personal. Most drivers have no idea…
Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects, Threatening Privacy and Public Health
Crystal Grant writes: Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a vital public health program, enabling early treatment of newborns with genetic disorders; for them, it can be the…
After Huge Illuminate Data Breach, Ed Tech’s ‘Student Privacy Pledge’ Under Fire
Mark Keierleber writes: A few months after education leaders at America’s largest school district announced that a technology vendor had exposed sensitive student information in a massive data breach, the company at fault — Illuminate Education — was recognized with the software industry’s equivalent of the Oscars. Since that disclosure in New York City schools, the scope of…
‘Hey Siri’: Virtual assistants are listening to children and then using the data
‘Hey Siri’: Virtual assistants are listening to children and then using the data Virtual assistants are becoming a more common household fixture, and many children are growing up and interacting with them. (Shutterstock) Stephen J. Neville, York University, Canada and Natalie Coulter, York University, Canada In many busy households around the world, it’s not uncommon for…