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Senator Sherrod Brown wants to drastically scale back the permitted uses of your personal data—and ban facial recognition outright.
Warning Full evaluation: Applications and services with a Warning rating do not meet our recommendations for privacy and security practices. Applications and services with a Warning rating have issues narrowly focused around data use related to creating profiles that are not associated with any educational purpose, selling data, and/or using data to target advertisements.
As communities struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, libraries are faced with the decision to institute contact tracing, monitoring who comes into the library and restricting access to those who don’t provide their personal information. Libraries should only perform contact tracing when mandated by public health or local officials. If your library is required to perform contact tracing there are specific ways that you can go about it that minimize the risks to users.
For the thousands of people protesting and reporting on George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department—or even for bystanders caught up in the demonstrations—arrests, injuries, and even death are becoming commonplace in this moment. And just like protests we’ve experienced within the past decade
Using examples drawn from interviews with refugees who have arrived in Europe since 2013, and an analysis of the impacts of the 2016 EU-Turkey deal on migration, this paper analyzes how the vast amount of data collected from refugees is gathered, stored and shared today, and considers the additional risks this collection process poses to an already vulnerable population navigating a perilous information-decision gap.
What privacy is for
By Huizhong Wu BEIJING (Reuters) - China is poised to enshrine individuals' rights to privacy and personal data for the first time, a symbolic first step ...
By: Becky Yoose What will your public library do when you reopen your doors? Some libraries are exploring phased reopening, starting with curbside or no-contact service outside the physical building. Others are investigating what reopening the physical building to library When libraries become medical screeners: User health data and library privacy
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A substantial share of the public has opted out of using a product or service because of concerns about how much information would be collected.
Federal judge Timothy Kelly wrote that even though Facebook's alleged privacy violations were "stunning," he would defer to the FTC's discretion, adding that the allegations "call into question the adequacy of laws governing how technology companies that collect and monetize Americans' personal information must treat that information."
ROXBURY, NJ - Public Libraries are known to open doors, extend hours and expand services when a crisis hits. So it hurt deeply when the Roxbury Public Library was forced to close to the public on...
The research for this report examined directory information practices and related issues in a multi-year study across more than 5,000 schools at the primary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. The research found troubling and challenging student privacy problems that need to be urgently addressed. The report includes detailed findings and recommendations based on the research.
The hotly debated move does little to address underlying issues many teachers and parents are having with the platform and other tools, educators say.
Twitter says this helps it "continue operating as a free service."
Zoom used LinkedIn hooks in ways that can out people's identities. Fuckers.