Hayley Tsukayama reports: Mattel said Wednesday that it will not move forward with plans to sell a kid-focused smart hub after new executives decided it did not “fully align with Mattel’s new technology strategy,” according to a company statement. Children’s health and privacy advocates this week petitioned the toy giant not to release the device,…
Category: Youth & Schools
A privacy nightmare may be looming.
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…
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…