Caleb Warnock reports: Parents opposed to the Common Core are protesting as the state is spending millions of dollars to collect student test data. They foresee Utah schools being forced to use the database to collect personal information, according to published federal guidelines, about students and families to share with researchers. Not a chance, state [...]
Kim Zetter reports: In the wake of the AP scandal, in which federal investigators obtained the phone records of journalists using only a subpoena, four lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House that would prevent federal agencies from seizing any phone records without a court order. Currently, the Telephone Records Act allows the feds to [...]
WRCB reports: Governor Nathan Deal signed an executive order Wednesday which prohibits the state from collecting or sharing with the federal government any personally identifiable data on students or their families. The order focuses on multiple areas of education and points out that intrusive data tracking is an invasion of privacy and the federal government [...]
David Kravets reports: The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the [...]
Grant Gross reports: More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data with agency workers posing as companies wanting to purchase information. This week, the FTC warned 10 data brokers, most with a significant online presence, that they may be violating [...]
Loek Essers reports: Apple violates German data protection law by asking for users’ broad, overall consent in its privacy policy, the Regional Court of Berlin ruled. Apple’s terms for sharing personal information with the company are too broadly formulated, the court ruled on April 30, according to a verdictpublished by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations [...]
Charlie Savage reports: The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations. Read [...]