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Turns Out It Was Actually The Missouri Governor's Office Who Was Responsible For The Security Vulnerability Exposing Teacher Data

The story of Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) leaking the Social Security Numbers of hundreds of. ....

Missouri , United-states , Mike-parson , Jon-renaud , Brian-krebs , Mallory-mcgowin , Mike-masnick , Office-of-administration , Department-of-elementary , Missouri-department-of-elementary , Techdirt-team , Office-of-administration-information-technology-services-division

Clearview Pitch Deck Says It's Aiming For A 100 Billion Image Database, Restarting Sales To The Private Sector

Clearview AI the facial recognition tech company so sketchy other facial recognition tech companies don't want to be associated. ....

New-york , United-states , New-jersey , United-kingdom , Washington , Vermont , Italy , China , Sweden , Illinois , California , Virginia

Another Coronavirus Side Effect: In-Home Surveillance By Remote Workers' Employers

Well, it took a pandemic to normalize domestic surveillance by [checks notes] employers. Not sure if this is the dystopia we needed or. ....

Brad-miller , Tim-cushing , Gregory-frost , Techdirt-team , In-home-surveillance-by-remote-worker , Alison-green , Bad-boss , Ovid-19 , Employees , Employers , Surveillance , Work-at-home

Apple Finally Defeats Dumb Diverse Emoji Lawsuit One Year Later

Roughly a year ago, we discussed a wildly silly lawsuit brought against Apple by a company called Cub Club and an individual, Katrina. ....

California , United-states , Katrina-parrott , Timothy-geigner , Vince-chhabria , Art-attacks-ink , Techdirt-team , Cub-club-investment , Apple-inc , Cub-club , Entertainment-inc , Judge-vince-chhabria

Comcast/NBC Ignores Lessons From The Cord Cutting Age, Buries Olympics Under An Ocean Of Annoying Advertising

It's becoming abundantly clear that the lessons of the cord cutting age are not sinking in at Comcast/NBC Universal headquarters. ....

London , City-of , United-kingdom , Everett-evgres , Lauren-smith-laurnsmith , Techdirt-team , Comcast , Olympics , Lessons-from-the-cord-cutting-age , Norman-chad , Lauren-smith , Advertising