Kenza Bryan, Sian Griffiths and Jon Ungoed-Thomas report on an epic student data privacy FAIL: Betting companies have been given access to an educational database containing names, ages and addresses of 28 million children and students in one of the biggest breaches of government data. They have used it to help increase the proportion of…
Category: Youth & Schools
Washington Schools’ Mental Health Survey Puts Student Gender and Sexuality Data at Risk
There is a lot of buzz in my Twitter timeline — mostly angry — over something in Washington State. David Gershgorn reported: In an effort to curb substance abuse and flag student mental health issues, in 2018, Washington state’s King County started giving students an unusual electronic survey. The Check Yourself screener, which is conducted…
NYCLU blasts ‘premature’ approval for school facial recognition system
Rachel Silberstein reports: The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling on the state Education Department to cancel its approval of a biometric surveillance system for a Western New York school district, arguing that the district has not addressed questions raised by its own experts on potential risks to student privacy. Lockport City School District,…
US: Updated Joint Guidance on Privacy and Student Education and Health Records
The U.S. Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released updated joint guidance today addressing the application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to records maintained on students….