Privacy

Minnesota’s Connected and Automated Vehicle Alliance is developing a privacy and security framework to help guide current and future smart transportation infrastructure and vehicle projects.

Republican politicians and privacy advocates are bristling over so-called vaccination passports, with some states moving to restrict their use. Critics say they create different classes of citizens.

Some education officials view anti-cheating software as an important part of maintaining integrity of exams during remote learning, but the tools have raised privacy concerns among students and digital rights activists.

Some of the tools teachers have used to facilitate remote learning have allowed them to see and close content on students' screens, raising questions about privacy, surveillance and student rights.

Florida state legislators are giving bipartisan support to legislation that imposes new disclosure requirements on companies that collect information on their customers to sell to data brokers.

Oregon legislators have proposed a bill to establish guidelines outlined by the state’s CIO office to address data privacy concerns. Other state legislatures are looking at similar laws.

Data from the recent Facebook breach appeared to be several years old and Health Net did not disclose the details of their own breach until months later. Would a national privacy law change things for the better?

More than 28 million people in the United States have downloaded the mobile apps or activated exposure notifications on their smartphones. Critics say the technology has overemphasized privacy at the cost of usefulness.

Portland Metro, an elected planning body serving the greater Portland, Ore. region, is no longer working with movement data company Replica, due to disagreements around the level of data the company would share.

Ultimately, legislators are going to have to enact protections giving people far more control over whether and how personal information is used online, ideally by action at the federal level.

A class-action lawsuit against the company claimed that the social media giant violated privacy laws by storing biometric data, like facial scans, without getting user approval first.

A new measure would give Washington residents the ability to access, transfer, correct and delete data that Big Tech companies — such as Google and Facebook — compile and give them the right to opt out of targeted advertising.

With the backing of big technology companies like Amazon and Microsoft, the Washington Privacy Act could mean new rights for the consumer. But not everyone is convinced the bill has the teeth it needs to work.

The bipartisan proposal would require tech companies to obtain explicit permission to collect and sell personal data of citizens. The legislation is similar to proposals underway in other parts of the country.

Walmart will pay $10 million to some Illinois employees to settle allegations it used a palm scanning device that violated their privacy rights, a deal that could amount to a couple hundred dollars for each person.

A national digital privacy think tank said the Pasco, Fla., Sheriff’s Office and schools must immediately change a program that uses student data to ID potential future criminals to comply with federal law.

Nearly half of teachers who participated in a recent survey have received no training at all on student privacy, beyond simply signing a form, while some have also not been trained on video conference platforms.

Washington CIO Jim Weaver has chosen Ruckle, the privacy officer and information governance administrator for the Department of Social and Health Services. She starts in the new role Jan. 1.