Meduza reports: Regional lawmakers from Samara have submitted draft legislation to the State Duma that would limit medical privacy for minors between the ages of 15 and 17, granting their parents access to their medical records. The law’s explanatory note warns that “older adolescents are often disinclined to inform their parents about unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, injuries sustained in…
Category: Youth & Schools
Research: Transparency and the Marketplace for Student Data
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…
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…