Katie Shepherd reports: Plenty of graduate students dislike the research assignments handed to them by professors. Ezra Whitman, a graduate student in the 2017 class at Portland State University, had a different problem with the homework he was given. He said it broke the law. “I didn’t want to do it, period,” says Whitman. “It…
Category: Youth & Schools
Amazon Releases New Guidance on AWS and FERPA
Dian Schaffhauser reports: More than two years after issuing guidance on FERPA compliance and Amazon Web Services, Amazon has updated the whitepaper to lay out the company’s “shared responsibility model” and provide specific guidance on 24 different AWS services. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, in general, calls for schools and agencies to “reasonably…
UK mother advocates to protect children’s education data privacy
Stephen Wynn-Davies reports: A mother of three said she was prepared to take the Government to court over its decision to include ‘highly sensitive’ data on the National Pupil Database. Jen Persson, from Pulborough, was ‘shocked’ when – last September – the Department for Education passed a law to collect more data on children who…
Ca: B.C parent raises flags over school district privacy breach
Jessica Peters reports: About 1,000 past and present students in the Chilliwack School District may have been affected by a privacy breach that took place between 2005 and 2015. A letter explaining the breach was published by the district on their website on Dec. 22, 2017, but the information has not come up in any…