26 May 2022

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Intro: If you hadn’t noticed, the U.S. doesn’t give much of a shit about this whole privacy thing______________________________________________

Our privacy regulators are comically and intentionally understaffed and underfunded, we still have no meaningful privacy law for the Internet era, and when regulators do act, it’s generally months after the fact with penalties that are easily laughed off by companies rich from data over-collection.

FTC Politely Asks Education Companies If They Would Maybe Stop Spying On Kids
Wed, May 25th 2022 06:28am -

"...That apathy extends to kids’ privacy, of course. For years, online education software vendors have engaged in just an absurd level of data over-collection and monetization, with massive data repositories culled via everything from facial recognition to keystroke tracking and deep packet inspection.
During COVID, it became increasingly clear that many of these companies were blocking students from participating in online education if they weren’t willing to agree to extensive monitoring and monetization. In direct response, the FTC last week announced the agency had issued a new policy statement reminding these companies that COPPA still exists.
In short, the FTC warned educators and companies about collecting more data than they need, implementing some basic levels of privacy and security standards, [..] selling data they collect, and restricting privacy conscious student and parent access to educational software:
acy conscious student and parent access to educational software:

“Students must be able to do their schoolwork without surveillance by companies looking to harvest their data to pad their bottom line,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Parents should not have to choose between their children’s privacy and their participation in the digital classroom. The FTC will be closely monitoring this market to ensure that parents are not being forced to surrender to surveillance for their kids’ technology to turn on.”

Unlike the broader dumpster fire that is adult data collection and monetization on the Internet, kids are at least semi-protected by the sloppy mess that is COPPA, a law that was intended to protect kids’ privacy, but was so poorly written as to create all manner of unintended consequences. .."

Techdirt

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Daily Deal: The GameCreators Mega Maker Pack Bundle

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