Tom Porter of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network has a piece on a new law that comes into effect in Maine next week that will enable the state Department of Education to track the progress of students using their social security numbers. While the law makes it optional for students and parents to provide schools…
A casualty of the technology revolution: ‘locational privacy’
Adam Cohen of The New York Times has an opinion piece on locational privacy and why there hasn’t been as much attention paid to its loss as we might expect. He hypothesizes that one reason may be that we enjoy having certain technology in our lives, and that the down side of such technology may…
Thousands call for Turing apology
Thousands of people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for a posthumous government apology to World War II code breaker Alan Turing. Writer Ian McEwan has just backed the campaign, which already has the support of scientist Richard Dawkins. In 1952 Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a…
Email Snooping Can Be Intrusion Upon Seclusion
Attorney Evan D. Brown discusses a case that sheds some light on how courts may view a privacy invasion claim of “intrusion on seclusion” when a firm’s employee email is hosted in the cloud: Local elected official Steinbach had an email account that was issued by the municipality. Third party Hostway provided the technology for…