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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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)…
School kids from K-12 are being indoctrinated into accepting DHS’s ‘VACCINE’ spying program, Part 2
In Part 2 of his series, Joe Cadillic writes: DHS’s ‘Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments‘ or VACCINE as it’s commonly referred to is being taught to school kids. Teachers instructed by DHS are teaching K-12 students that spying on innocent Americans is ok. “VACCINE’s mission is to educate current homeland security stakeholders and the next generation…
Huffington Post ‘Right To Privacy’ Looks Very Different For Conservatives Who Defend Anti-Trans Bathroom Laws
Cristian Farias writes: A number of lawsuits are now underway in North Carolina over its enforcement of HB2, the controversial law that, among other provisions, bars transgender students from using restrooms that align with their gender identity. The main two are the federal government’s action against North Carolina and the state’s own pushback against the Justice Department for “overreach” — each…