Mark Walsh reports: The U.S. Department of Education has found that Success Academy Charter Schools violated the federal student privacy law by disclosing personally identifiable information from the education records of a student in a controversy over the charter network’s suspension practices. The department’s Student Privacy Policy Office wrote to Success Academy founder and CEO…
Category: Youth & Schools
SG: School’s random drug test not in breach of law, says PDPC
K.C. Vijayan reports: A test case decided by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has clarified how random drug tests for international school students stand with data protection laws here. The commission held, after a probe into a parent’s complaint about his son’s hair sample being taken by the German European School Singapore (GESS), that…
UK: Universities to trawl through students’ social media to look for suicide risk, under new project
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…
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…