Kashmir Hill and Aaron Krolik report: The pictures of Chloe and Jasper Papa as kids are typically goofy fare: grinning with their parents; sticking their tongues out; costumed for Halloween. Their mother, Dominique Allman Papa, uploaded them to Flickr after joining the photo-sharing sitec in 2005. None of them could [Read More…]
Tim Tooten reports: After a recent state audit showed that Maryland needs to do a better job of protecting student’s personal records, the state has formed a student data privacy council to help address the issue. There have been concerns for some time, both in Maryland and around the nation [Read More…]
Matt Masterston reports: A group of Democratic Illinois lawmakers believes the vendor that develops and administers the SAT and Advanced Placement exams may be violating state law by selling student data to colleges, universities and scholarship providers. Nine state senators and representatives this week penned a letter to Illinois Attorney [Read More…]
Jeff Kosseff, who has a book about Section 230 that more people need to read, writes: When I started writing a book about an arcane internet law more than three years ago, I never could have predicted the controversy that I would encounter. My book, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet, tells [Read More…]