That's
what government agencies do, right?
Marianne
Kolbasuk McGee reports:
Is the Federal Trade Commission overstepping its regulatory authority
– and using questionable sources of information – in pursuing
data security enforcement actions against companies, including
healthcare entities, for alleged unfair and deceptive trade
practices?
Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
considered that and other questions during a July 24 hearing, which
included testimony by two executives whose healthcare firms have had
run-ins with the FTC over their data security practices.
Read
more about the hearing on HealthcareInfoSecurity.com.
For
my comments on yesterday’s hearing, see my post on my companion
blog, databreaches.net.
Weekly
weirdness.
…
Rand Paul
is planning “a major push on education reform, including ‘education
choice, school choice, vouchers, charter schools, you name it — I
think we need innovation,’” reports
Politico. Among the innovations Paul likes: Khan
Academy. “If
you have one person in the country who is, like, the best at
explaining calculus, that person maybe should teach every calculus
class in the country.” [We
have the technology to do that! Bob] Pando has a
story on the libertarian conference held in Silicon Valley last
weekend where Paul also spoke, praising
Khan Academy again.
…
The Department of
Education issued
new guidelines on how schools should handle telling parents about
the data
they collect on students.
…
Oops. If you entered a dollar figure that included cents into the
Income Earned From Work field of your FAFSA,
the “system ignored the decimal point, converting an earned income
of $5,000.19, for example, into $500,019.” The Department
of Education will reprocess
the 200,000-ish applications affected. [Does
anyone test their programming anymore? Bob]
…
“The
New American University: Massive, Online, And Corporate-Backed”
(That’s ASU.)
…
Via
Inside Higher Ed: “In recent years, a handful of community
colleges in [Michigan]
have outsourced the recruitment and hiring of adjunct
instructors – who make up the overwhelming majority of the
community college teaching force – to an educational staffing
company. Just last week, the faculty union at a sixth institution,
Jackson College, signed a collective bargaining agreement allowing
EDUStaff to take over adjunct hiring and payroll duties.”
[Business opportunity?
Bob]
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