PogoWasRight.org recently linked to, and excerpted, an article that appeared on Boca News Now, called, Is your child’s teacher using Bloomz? It’s NOT Approved In Palm Beach County Schools. Post-publication, BocaNewsNow apparently heard from Bloomz, and BNN issued a small update to their story. Bloomz also contacted this site and asked me to post their response….
Category: Youth & Schools
Is your child’s teacher using Bloomz? It’s NOT Approved In Palm Beach County Schools
Post-publication, PogoWasRight received an email from Bloomz, challenging the accuracy of BocaNewsnow’s reporting. I have posted their full response as a separate post to ensure that it shows up in people’s news feeds, rather than just updating this post, and I do hope that everyone reads their response. The original post appears below: BocaNewsNow…
New US Dept of Ed Finding: Schools Cannot Require Parents or Students to Waive Their FERPA Rights Through Ed Tech Company’s Terms of Service
Lindsey Barrett and Amelia Vance of the Future of Privacy Forum discuss an important letter from the U.S. Department of Education in response to a parent complaint about whether an ed tech company contracted with a school can require the student to waive any protections under FERPA. From the US DOE’s response: “A parent or…
1,000 Danish youths face charges for sharing 15-year-olds’ sex videos
Timothy B. Lee reports: More than 1,000 young people are facing charges in Denmark after allegedly sharing two sexually explicit videos and a photograph involving underage subjects on Facebook Messenger. Danish police announced the charges on Monday morning, according to the Danish publication The Local. The sharing occurred in late 2017 and depicted a sexual…