Alissa Widman Neese reports; A report that rates states on how well their laws protect the privacy of student data ranks Ohio’s efforts among the weakest. Ohio finished in 40th place with a D-minus, and the only states that scored lower were those the report listed as not having approved any laws in the past…
Category: Youth & Schools
Chicago Public Schools Monitored Social Media for Signs of Violence, Gang Membership
by Aaron Leibowitz for ProPublica Illinois, and Sarah Karp, WBEZ Chicago In January 2017, after a social media analyst for the Chicago Public Schools reviewed the Facebook profile of a Roosevelt High School student and began to suspect he might be in a gang, a police officer was summoned to the school to conduct an…
Learner Privacy in MOOCs and Virtual Education
Elana Zeide and Helen Nissenbaum have an article available for download on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The current debate about student privacy issues raised by education technology focuses on how schools information with private vendors. It neglects a related but different trend, namely, the rise of online learning platforms offering learning experiences and credentials directly…
EU orders recall of children’s smartwatch over severe privacy concerns
Catalin Cimpanu reports: For the first time, EU authorities have announced plans to recall a product from the European market because of a data privacy issue. The product is Safe-KID-One, a children’s smartwatch produced by German electronics vendor ENOX. According to the company’s website, the watch comes with a trove of features, such as a…