Sapna Maheshwari reports: A coalition of more than 20 consumer advocacy groups is expected to file a complaint with federal officials on Monday claiming that YouTube has been violating a children’s privacy law. The complaint contends that YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, has been collecting and profiting from the personal information of young children on…
Category: Youth & Schools
Mandatory Transparent Backpacks Violate Students’ Privacy Rights (Or Do They?)
Robby Soave writes: Students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this morning sporting new, mandatory transparent backpacks. This so-called safety measure, like so many others proposed in the wake of the horrific mass shooting—installing metal detectors, hiring more school resource officers, raising the minimum age to purchase an AR-15—is security theater. One can understand…
UN Agencies and Civil Society Organisations’ joint statement: Coercion of children to obtain fingerprints and facial images is never acceptable
From the United Nations, via Joe Cadillic: BRUSSELS (28 February 2018) – We, the undersigned civil society and UN organizations, are concerned by proposals now under consideration as part of the ongoing reform of the Common European Asylum System which would allow the use of coercion to take the fingerprints and facial images of children….
EdTech: Parent raises privacy concerns about Mathletics
In the past month, I’ve been reading more parent concerns about student data being collected, stored, or shared without parent knowledge or consent. One such situation was brought to my attention recently by Leonie Haimson who had been made aware of some concerns about a math app called Mathletics. We’ll call the concerned parent “Annie…