Jack Bouboushian reports: ACT and The College Board sell high school students’ personal information, including Social Security numbers, to third parties at 33 cents a head, a class action claims in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff Rachel Specter sued ACT Inc. and The College Board, the company behind the SAT and Advanced Placement tests. ACT and…
Month: October 2013
No U.S. Action, So States Move on Privacy Law
Somini Sengupta reports: State legislatures around the country, facing growing public concern about the collection and trade of personal data, have rushed to propose a series of privacy laws, from limiting how schools can collect student data to deciding whether the police need a warrant to track cellphone locations. Read more on The New York…
Laughing at the NSA and Congress, Thursday edition
Jon Stewart nailed it last night: Making fun of a federal agency or Congress should be protected speech, right? But as some have discovered, the NSA has no sense of humor when it comes to the use of its seal. Sheri Qualters reports that parodist Dan McCall has sued the NSA in federal court in…
NSA bombshell shocks former spooks and infuriates Google and Yahoo
Shane Harris, Noah Schachtman, and John Hudson report: Former intelligence officials and technology industry executives reacted with anger and anxiety over the latest revelations that the National Security Agency is reportedly infiltrating some of the world’s biggest technology companies and making off with the private communications of millions of their customers. And if the reports…