Rachel Silberstein reports: Local educators say the technology is working; vaping in the high school bathrooms is down. Niskayuna and South Colonie school districts are among those in New York installing devices in bathrooms that digitally detect vapor, sending real-time text messages to school administrators as part of comprehensive anti-vaping initiatives. The New York-based Soter…
Category: Youth & Schools
New Artificial Intelligence Law for Illinois Employers in January 2020
Julia Kadish and Liisa Thomas of SheppardMullin write: January 1, 2020, organizations that employ individuals based in Illinois will need to keep in mind the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act. This Act sets forth new requirements for video-recorded interviews using AI to analyze such recordings. The law is not limited to just Illinois residents. It applies…
Why parents in a school district near the CIA are forcing tech companies to erase kids’ data
Lois Beckett reports: Parents at a public school district in Maryland have won a major victory for student privacy: tech companies that work with the school district now have to purge the data they have collected on students once a year. Experts say the district’s “Data Deletion Week” may be the first of its kind…
Majority of VCU students refuse to participate in Wi-Fi tracking program
Tom Nash reports: Nearly 60 percent of the 4,047 students targeted for a Virginia Commonwealth University Wi-Fi tracking pilot program refused to participate, according to documents released by VCU. The university began tracking attendance through the Wi-Fi on students’ phones and other devices in November after entering a $96,000, one-year agreement with vendor Degree Analytics. VCU is using the…