Some of you will likely only know me as “Dissent,” the privacy advocate and blogger who publishes this site and DataBreaches.net. Some of you may know me under my real name as a licensed psychologist in clinical practice, an author, and as a former consultant to school districts. It is not often I put on…
Category: Youth & Schools
FTC, Department of Education Announce Workshop to Explore Privacy Issues Related to Education Technology
While I was at the Privacy and Security Forum in D.C. this week, I heard from a Dept of Education official that the FTC and the Dept of Education were announcing a workshop. I think there’s a really good discussion to be had there about some very important issues and concerns. The notice is below,…
Tennessee Attorney General Says School Districts Can’t Keep Student Data From Charters
Blake Farmer reports: Tennessee’s attorney general has weighed in on whether school districts can withhold student data from charter schools that want it for recruiting purposes. According to the state’s top attorney, they cannot. The public school districts in Nashville and Memphis have resisted demands from the state to turn over student information like addresses…
Bipartisan Report: Feds Should Connect Student Data While Protecting Privacy
Amelia Vance writes: Today, the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking released their final report. The Commission was created through bi-partisan legislation in 2016 to “consider how to strengthen government’s evidence-building and policymaking efforts” (page 16). One of the key issues that the Commission heard from advocates on all sides about whether to overturn the current federal ban…