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…
Category: Youth & Schools
Public school district in New York starts using facial recognition to stop mass shootings
Dalvin Brown reports: Facial recognition has enrolled in school. On Monday, a New York school district became one of the first in the U.S. to roll out facial recognition technology on campus using its students’ faces as an added layer of security. The system of cameras can also be used to identify guns or flagged persons, such…
CU Colorado Springs students secretly photographed for government-backed facial-recognition research
Elizabeth Hernandez follows up on a story that the Colorado Springs Independent broke last week: A professor at the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus led a project that secretly snapped photos of more than 1,700 students, faculty members and others walking in public more than six years ago in an effort to enhance facial-recognition…
Amid a Spate of Activity, COPPA Remains an FTC Enforcement Priority
Bonnie Yeomans, Stephanie Kapinos and Kevin Milewski of Proskauer write: Earlier this month, the FTC sent a letter to Wildec, LLC, the Ukraine-based maker of several mobile dating apps, alleging that the apps were collecting the personal information and location data of users under the age of 13 without first obtaining verifiable parental consent or…