It’s not often I read about someone being fired for a FERPA violation. Then I realized that the news source was a student-run publication. Good for them for covering this topic. Ujwal Srivastava reports: A computer science teaching assistant (TA) was removed from the staff of CS 224N: “Natural Language [Read More…]
Here’s an update on some state-level privacy legislation in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Washington State: Michael Boldin writes: Today, the New Hampshire House approved a bill to ban government use of facial recognition surveillance technologies. The proposed law would not only help protect privacy in New Hampshire; it would also [Read More…]
Mark G. McCreary and Caroline A. Morgan of Fox Rothschild write: A new version of the Washington Privacy Act, a privacy and data protection bill aimed to make businesses “responsible custodians of data,” proposes one of the most comprehensive state privacy laws. Introduced featuring elements of the California Consumer Privacy Act [Read More…]
Clayton Sandell and Jeffrey Cook report: A Colorado district attorney expressed frustration Thursday at not being able to prosecute an Aurora police officer who was found passed out drunk in his car last year, calling the department’s failure to launch a DUI investigation a double standard meant to protect one of its [Read More…]