‘Next time it won’t be celebrity secrets,’ warns Sen Markey on privacy hack

Could the release of hundreds of stolen photos of celebrities propel Congress to get moving on new legislation to protect people’s data?

“Next time it won’t be celebrity secrets but students’ educational records that rain down from the cloud for the world to see,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said while expressing support for a bill he wrote with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to protect students’ data held by private companies. “The compromise of celebrity information should signal the beginning of a big debate on how to strengthen the protections of American children’s most sensitive data that is now being stored in the cloud,” he added. “We need to pass student privacy legislation that requires companies to put in place data security safeguards that protect information they house about our children in the classroom.”