From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On May 31, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission published on its Business Blog a post addressing the easily missed data deletion requirement under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). The post cautions that companies must review their data policy in order to comply with the data retention and deletion rule….
Category: Youth & Schools
Bringing Photos and Video into Focus under FERPA
William J. Zee of Barley Snyder writes, in part: …. Prior to the recent issuance of the “FAQs on Photos and Videos under FERPA,” the issue of surveillance video as an education record was addressed in the December 7 “Letter to Wachter.” The new guidance does not deviate substantially from the information provided in the…
COPPA, Google, and the privacy of Canadian students
In April of 2017, and then again in June, 2017, Millwood Junior School in Ontario implemented the “Millwood Wellness Census” as part of a Wellness Week initiative. The census was assigned to each student in grades SK-5, and required the students to use their Google account. The students’ surveys were submitted using the students’respective Toronto District…
Belated bans? Twitter is banning accounts that were created before user was 13.
Attempts to comply with GDPR is having some interesting effects. Jordan Pearson reports: Since the European Union’s new data privacy laws—the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR—came into effect last week, a ton of people have complained that their Twitter accounts were suspended because Twitter seems to believe they are under the age of 13,…