From EPIC.org: EPIC, along with Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) and other leading privacy and civl liberties organizations, issued a Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Schools. Radio Frequency Identification is an identification tracking technology “designed to monitor physical objects,” such as commercial products, vehicles, and animals. Some school districts are proposing to…
Web Sites Accused of Collecting Data on Children
Natasha Singer reports: A coalition of nearly 20 children’s advocacy, health and public interest groups plans to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, asserting that some online marketing to children by McDonald’s and four other well-known companies violates a federal law protecting children’s privacy. The law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, requires Web…
Google Analytics breaks Norwegian privacy laws, local agency says
Mikael Ricknäs reports: The Norwegian Tax Administration and the State Educational Loan Fund’s use of Google Analytics violate the country’s privacy laws, because the agencies have no control over how Google uses information about users, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority said on Tuesday. The authority, which has a history of keeping U.S. IT companies on…
California passes legislation to protect college students’ social media privacy
Sam Laird reports: California’s Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation to bar colleges and universities from requiring students to provide administrators with access to theirsocial media usernames and passwords. Governor Jerry Brown now must sign or veto the bill by Sept. 30. California is not the first state to pass legislation protecting social media privacy for…