Kate Kaye reports: Privacy legislation affecting the online advertising industry could be submitted by November. According to statements made recently by Rep. Rick Boucher, who heads up the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, a bill with bipartisan support could be introduced before Congress adjourns for its winter holiday break. “We are making…
NH congressman questions Social Security on glitch
As an update to a story previously reported here, Holly Ramer of the Associated Press reports: Rep. Paul Hodes has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate and stop a processing glitch that linked U.S. numbers to those issued in three foreign countries and could be causing credit problems for his constituents. The problem—which mostly…
Farina Accused Of Misappropriating Confidential Student Info
Marcia Chambers reports: Denise Farina, the tenured teacher at the center of a rare public termination hearing, used her teacher’s pass code to take confidential information from a student data bank at the Mary T. Murphy Elementary School to give to her paralegal for use in her case — a violation of federal law, the…
BPI alerts BT to 100,000 suspected illegal downloaders
Carrie-ann Skinner reports: BT has been given 100,000 IP addresses belonging to BT broadband customers suspected of illegally filesharing. According to the BPI, which provided BT with the addresses, the ISP has not yet acted on the information. Geoff Taylor, CEO of the BPI, told the Daily Mirror: “It’s shameful for a company like BT…