Mark Walsh reports: The U.S. Department of Education has found that Success Academy Charter Schools violated the federal student privacy law by disclosing personally identifiable information from the education records of a student in a controversy over the charter network’s suspension practices. The department’s Student Privacy Policy Office wrote to Success Academy founder and CEO…
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Use of Backpack may cross digital privacy lines
Piper Hansen is the Editor-in-Chief of Manual RedEye, the student newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky’s duPont Manual High School. She researched and wrote a really excellent piece on student digital privacy. It begins: Amid the college application deadlines, school-work and football games in mid-October, duPont Manual’s senior class met in the auditorium, quickly filling the seats…
Auditor Says FBI Database of Faces Lacks Privacy Safeguards
Brandi Buchman reports: Back for Day 2 of an oversight hearing on the government’s use of facial-recognition software, lawmakers were left momentarily and uncharacteristically speechless Tuesday as an auditor at Homeland Security detailed the FBI’s database of 640 million faces, a number that is twice the population of the United States. Gretta Goodwin, director of…
New York’s Privacy Bill Is Even Bolder Than California’s
Issie Lapowsky reports: As tech giants and lobbying groups race to defang California’s landmark consumer privacy law before it takes effect next year, lawmakers on the other side of the country are considering a bill that’s even more drastic. The New York Privacy Act, introduced last month by state senator Kevin Thomas, would give residents…