There’s a concerning piece in the Sun Sentinel that describes how alleged mass shooter Nikolas Crus refused special education/mental health services at age 18, and how there was nothing the school district could do about that. The intersection between HIPAA and FERPA is one that has come up before – most notably after the Virginia Tech…
Category: Youth & Schools
The six big privacy concerns for edtech
Patience Wait reports: In December, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop on student privacy and edtech in Washington, D.C. During one panel, Priscilla Regan, a professor at George Mason University — who has been writing about privacy policy since the late 1970s — set the framework for discussion by identifying six broad concerns…
Macomb County safety system allows officials to use cameras to track school shooters
Syma Chowdhry reports: After last week’s school shooting in Florida, many local law enforcement officials are reviewing their safety measures if faced with the same situation. The Macomb County Communications and Technology Center, known as COMTEC, has the capability to access cameras in schools, becoming a hub for police during an active shooter situation. […]…
Privacy policies can conflict with personalized learning, but they don’t have to, NASBE finds
Patience Wait reports: There does not have to be tension between implementing personalized learning for students and safeguarding those same students’ privacy through data protection policies, says a new report from the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). The report, “Advancing Personalized Learning through Effective Use and Protection of Student Data,” argues that…