Alec Hamilton reports: A data-sharing agreement inked between the state Department of Education and a private nonprofit last week may led to confidential student information being used for commercial purposes, parents activists claim. Critics said on Sunday they had privacy concerns about information sent to the student database known as the Shared Learning Collective —…
Google ‘to be told by EU to unravel privacy policy’
Charles Arthur reports: Google will be told on Tuesday to unravel the controversial changes introduced in March to its European privacy policy, legal sources have told the Guardian. The French data protection commissioner, the CNIL, will be holding a press conference on Tuesday to announce the results of its deliberations together with the data protection chiefs of the…
Student campaign set on exposing secrecy flaws
Jill Riepenhoff reports: To shed light on public records being held secret by many U.S. colleges, the Student Press Law Center is urging students everywhere to flood their schools with requests to see their own education records. The goal of the campaign is to show what the center’s director says is hypocrisy by colleges in…
Release of alleged client list delayed in Kennebunk prostitution case
Every so often a prostitution case hits the media over its privacy implications for those who used the prostitute’s services. A case is playing out in Maine right now because “the John’s” that engaged the prostitute are being charged, too, and their attorneys are fighting to have their names shielded from the press and…