A new – and important – multi-year study by researchers at Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy has just been released today. The research team, consisting of N. Cameron Russell, Joel R. Reidenberg, Elizabeth Martin, and Thomas B. Norton, assisted by Fordham Law students Samuel Borenzweig and Noelle Park, investigated a number of critical questions related to how data…
Category: Youth & Schools
FTC Posts Blog on Data Deletion Rule under COPPA
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….
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…