It is an issue that has come up a number of times for me with one of my other “hats” on: do you send a child to school with a wire to record what’s going on in the school if they claim they are being harassed or abused so that you have proof? Maybe you’ve seen…
Category: Youth & Schools
Wyoming Senate votes to indefinitely postpone student data privacy bill
Matt Murphy reports that the Wyoming Senate voted Tuesday to postpone – indefinitely -Senate File 20, a student data privacy bill. On Wednesday, the Senate Education Committee voted 4-1 to send the bill to the full body, which ended up postponing the law indefinitely. Read more on Wyoming Tribune Eagle. So why has this been…
A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s terms of use “in plain English” so kids would know their privacy rights
Amy B. Wang reports: “‘Terms and conditions’ is one of the first things you agree to when you come upon a site,” Jenny Afia, a privacy lawyer and partner at Schillings law firm in London, told The Washington Post. “But of course no one reads them. I mean, most adults don’t read them.” Afia was…
The perfect storm: three bills that will destroy student data privacy in England
Jen Persson writes: Lords have voiced criticism and concern at plans for ‘free market’ universities, that will prioritise competition over collaboration and private interests over social good. But while both Houses have identified the institutional effects, they are yet to discuss the effects on the individuals of a bill in which “too much power is concentrated in…