Anya Kamenetz writes: …. Student data used to be the pet cause of a small group of lawyers and activists. Now, in part because of the InBloom controversy, it’s gaining broader attention. This year, 82 bills in 32 states have been introduced that somehow address student privacy. But what, exactly, is new here? How worried should…
Month: April 2014
Our Privacy and Data Security Depend Upon Contracts Between Organizations
Add this to your must-read list for today. Dan Solove has a short article on LinkedIn that addresses what the FTC might do in the case where a school district enters into a contract with a cloud provider. Although the FTC generally has no authority over the education sector, they might take action against the…
Judicial review of Facebook PRISM case to be heard this week
Noel Baker reports: A judicial review brought by an Austrian student over the transfer of personal information by Facebook is to go ahead in the High Court in Dublin this week. Max Schrems of the Europe-V-Facebook.org group launched the action last year over what he claimed was the Data Protection Commissioner’s “refusal” to investigate Facebook over its…
Bulgarian Electoral Commission Submits Personal Data Fraud Complaints
Bulgaria’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has sent 357 complaints and signals for misuse of personal data in the registration of candidates for the European Elections. The complaints have been sent to the Commission for Personal Data Protection, while a further 20 signals have been sent to the Prosecution, Dariknews reports. Read more on Novinite.