UPDATE of Feb. 14: Hallelujah, common sense and privacy prevailed. Michael Geist tweets: Supreme Court of Canada overturns Court of Appeal in Jarvis with win for privacy – “students recorded by the accused were in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy” https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/17515/index.do — Michael Geist (@mgeist) February 14, 2019 Supreme Court…
Category: Youth & Schools
Report: Ohio’s student-data privacy laws weak
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…
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…