Nick Statt reports: Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing mobile app that rose to prominence more than half a decade ago, has been inadvertently exposing sensitive information about its users for years through a public online database, according to a new report from The Washington Post. The app, while far from as popular as it was in the few years…
Category: Youth & Schools
Education in a Time of Corona: Student Privacy Law and the Coronavirus
Saad Gul and Michael Slipsky of Poyner Spruill LLP write: The coronavirus, officially COVID-19, is the most significant public health emergency in decades. The virus, believed to have originated in Wuhan, has expanded with astonishing rapidity. Despite government efforts, it has arrived in the United States. At the time of writing, 14 Americans have died….
Schools’ biometrics trials fined in Poland, launched in NJ, and criticized in Australia
Luana Pascu reports: A school in Gdansk, Poland, has been fined PLN 20,000 (roughly US$5,300) by the European Data Protection Board over a biometric data processing breach that affected 680 children in the 2019-2020 school year. The school used a biometric reader to process student’s fingerprints as a form of identification and lunch payment verification, however the…
Schools using Google not fazed by New Mexico lawsuit
Mitchell Kirk reports: Leaders of Hancock County schools that use Google’s educational service do not share concerns of accused spying and data mining outlined in a federal lawsuit against the tech giant. New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed the lawsuit against Google in February in a U.S. district court in Albuquerque. The suit accuses…