Nice recap by Sarah Breitenbach: … In 2014, 21 states passed 26 student data laws mostly targeted at states and school districts. Many echoed a 2013 Oklahoma law that requires state approval to release student data and mandates that only aggregated data — no data tied to individual students — can be released. By last year, lawmakers had shifted…
Category: Youth & Schools
NYS legislature considers two student data privacy bills
Sheila Kaplan has been advocating for an “opt-out” law to protect student privacy for a decade now. Could NYS finally be on the brink of passing one? There are two bills currently in the New York legislature that will be of interest to student privacy advocates in New York. And in other student-privacy related news, NYS is…
EPIC, Coalition Petitions Education Department for Data Security Rules for Student Records
From EPIC: EPIC, legal scholars, technical experts, and many leading privacy organizations have petitioned the Education Department to establish a data security rule to protect student records. The experts and groups explained that data breaches now plague schools and colleges across the country, following recent changes to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The petition calls for the establishment of rules for encryption, privacy enhancing techniques, and…
Surveilling students with CCTV: the hidden human rights curriculum
One of the other many exciting sessions I attended at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference this past week concerned surveilling students. It’s a topic I’ve blogged about a number of times on this blog, but given that this surveillance paper concerned its application in Israel, where the laws are different (even non-existent in some respects)…