The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a Special Interest Group of the non-profit Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is proud to announce the release of another great resource to support schools in their student data privacy stewardship roles. The National Research Data Privacy Agreement (NRDPA) has been Community developed with extensive review and comment from…
Category: U.S.
Buying Data and the Fourth Amendment
As tweeted by Orin Kerr: The final version of my essay, “Buying Data and the Fourth Amendment,” has been posted. The essay asks: Does the 4th Amendment permit the government to buy location data without a warrant? And it answers: Yes, it does. https://t.co/EnAGpm0GFU (cc @jacklgoldsmith) pic.twitter.com/7hXRSqUkJy — Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) November 18, 2021 Direct…
Florida Parents Sue School for Secretly ‘Transitioning’ 13-Year-Old Daughter
Penny Starr reports: Parents of a 13-year-old daughter have filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida school district after officials at Deerlake Middle School secretly “transitioned” her into a “transgender male,” or a biological girl who says she wants to live as a boy, including allowing her to use male spaces like bathrooms and choosing pronouns. Read…
Is our government buying our data? We need a federal investigation
An OpEd by former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman and former Senator Mark Udall writes, in part: The IRS, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have been purchasing our personal data from data brokers, an unregulated industry that Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has termed “shady.” The Defense Intelligence Agency admitted to Wyden in January that it disregards…