Daniel Rivero reports on a story previously noted on this blog: An alleged phone call from the NSA prompted public school officials in an Alabama school district to launch a surveillance program to monitor students’ online activities, administrators of the Huntsville City School District now admit. The NSA allegedly took an interest in the Lee…
Category: Online
West Australia teachers access student email with tweaked Office 365
Paris Cowan reports: Privacy advocates have raised concerns about functionality built into West Australian school student email accounts which offers some education staff unsupervised access to stored messages. The so-called ‘duty of care’ feature was built into WA schools’ Microsoft Office for Education cloud email service in late 2013, according to the WA Department of…
AL: Huntsville schools say call from NSA led to monitoring students online; NSA says call never happened
Challen Stephens reports: A secret program to monitor students’ online activities began quietly in Huntsville schools, following a phone call from the NSA, school officials say. Huntsville schools Superintendent Casey Wardynski says the system began monitoring social media sites 18 months ago, after the National Security Agency tipped the school district to a student making violent…
50% of websites in Morocco do not protect users’ personal data
Tarik El Barakah reports: The National Commission for the Protection of Personal Data (CNDP) has revealed on Friday that 50% of the websites in Morocco do not respect the legal procedures for the protection of such data. In a control operation of personal data that involved 104 websites, the CNDP said that only 22% of…