Back in March, I linked to an article in The Telegraph, “French parents ‘could be jailed’ for posting children’s photos online.” And in September, I linked to an article about an Austrian teen suing her parents for violating her privacy by posting her pictures online without her consent. Now Scott Greenfield has a post about the…
Category: Youth & Schools
Defending Student Data from Classrooms to the Cloud: 2016 in Review
Soraya Okuda of EFF recaps 2016 developments: In classrooms across the country, students as young as kindergarteners are turning on school-issued devices and logging into their online school accounts. While students and teachers can benefit from educational apps and services, behind the scenes edtech companies are inhaling troves of data on students, often without the…
TalkTalk hack: Co Antrim schoolboy loses legal challenge over identification
From the but-think-of-the-children dept.: Alan Erwin reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the TalkTalk cyber attack has lost his High Court challenge to an alleged failure to implement legislation that would protect him from media identification. The 15-year-old took action against the Department of Justice over claims it has done nothing about a law…
CT: Bristol Board of Ed adopts new student data security policy
Susan Corica reports: The Board of Education has adopted a new policy to protect the privacy of student data, to comply with new state legislation. […] Under the new policy, “for any contract that we generate, after Oct. 1 of 2016, we need to have a clause in there that tells us exactly how they…