This is one of those “balancing” situations. Phoebe Suy reports: Baylor lost its fought to prevent the disclosure of certain confidential medical and counseling records on Monday when U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman ordered the university to disclose information under limited conditions. “The issues at stake in this action are indisputably important, and data…
Category: Youth & Schools
Oregon Teachers Told to Report Their Students for Having Sex
Beatrice Dupuy reports: Teachers in one Oregon school district who fail to report the sexual activity of their students could be at risk of being fined or losing their jobs. The Salem-Keizer district officials told teachers that if they hear about their students having sex they must report it to law enforcement or Department of Human Services officials….
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Issues Report on Children’s Educational Apps
Hunton & Williams writes: Recently, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) issued its 2017 Global Privacy Enforcement Network Sweep results (the “Report”), which focused on certain privacy practices of online educational tools and services targeted at classrooms. The OPC examined the privacy practices of two dozen educational websites and apps used by…
Poor security blamed after school surveillance images broadcast on Russian site
So yeah, I’d say this is pretty bad. Cassie Williams reports: Security protocols on surveillance cameras at a Cape Breton school remain out of date, months after images of its students were unintentionally broadcast on the internet, Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner Catherine Tully says. Tully’s report on the matter found there were “inadequate passwords and insufficient…