Meanwhile…. from back on the road that is paved with good intentions but goes to the wrong place, Camilla Turner reports: Universities are to trawl through students’ social media to look for signs that they may be suicidal, as part of a new project funded by the higher education watchdog. The new scheme, backed by…
Category: Youth & Schools
Cn: CAC Releases Draft Regulation on the Protection of Children’s Personal Information Online
Yan Luo, Zhijing Yu and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: On May 31, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released the draft Regulation on the Protection of Children’s Personal Information Online (“Draft Regulation”) for public comment. (An official Chinese version is available here and an unofficial English translation of the Draft Regulation is…
Use of Backpack may cross digital privacy lines
Piper Hansen is the Editor-in-Chief of Manual RedEye, the student newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky’s duPont Manual High School. She researched and wrote a really excellent piece on student digital privacy. It begins: Amid the college application deadlines, school-work and football games in mid-October, duPont Manual’s senior class met in the auditorium, quickly filling the seats…
University of New Mexico takes measures to further safeguard student privacy
Beginning this June, The University of New Mexico will update its student privacy practices to better safeguard Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as it relates to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act or FERPA, by reducing the information that can be shared with third parties without a student’s written consent. FERPA, which was designed to protect student…