Carnell Hawthorne Jr. reports on an issue discussed on Pogo in the past: federal education laws known as FERPA and NCLB that come into play when the military wants to get personal or contact information to recruit students. Many parents still don’t seem to know that they have the right to send in an opt-out…
MoD ‘did not want to breach privacy of detainee’ (*cough*)
Robert Verkaik reports that a law charity is accusing the U.K. Ministry of Defense of playing the “we were just protecting their privacy” card to cover up their treatment — or mistreatment — of two men arrested in 2004 and transferred to the U.S.. The men were reportedly subjected to rendition and torture in Afghanistan…
PROMISES, PROMISES: A closed meeting on openness
President Obama continues morphing into President Bush. If you need informal proof, just watch Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and you’ll see that she is becoming more openly critical of a president for whom she repeatedly made excuses earlier in his administration. Or be a fly on the wall at my next family get-together to hear…
DoD cancels EchoMetrix contract after EPIC complaint (updated)
Back in September, PogoWasRight.org reported that EPIC.org had filed a complaint with the FTC about EchoMetrix, a developer of software for monitoring of online activity. As reported at the time, EPIC alleged that EchoMetrix analyzes the information collected from children and sells the data to third parties for marketing or intelligence purposes while claiming it…