Daily Mail reports: The University of Sydney and Wesley College are embroiled in a bitter battle over student privacy as Vice Chancellor Michael Spence demands the names of students involved in this weeks scandals. After reports emerged regarding a ‘slut shaming’ journal which named and divulged intimate details about female students, it was then revealed…
Category: Youth & Schools
KS: Police investigating student breach of privacy
Alison Booth reports: The Shawnee Police Department is currently investigating the actions of a 17-year-old male student who allegedly took inappropriate cellphone photos and videos of female students without their consent at school. According to an email from principal Tobie Waldeck directed toward students’ parents and guardians, the videos and photos recovered are considered a…
The Feds Call It “Research.” We Call It Violating Child Privacy.
Jane Robbins and Emmett McGroarty write: Much has been written about the dangers of the proposed Strengthening Education Through Research Act (SETRA), especially the bill’s extension of student data-collection to socioemotional data. But parents should realize the broader privacy problems with government-sponsored education “research.” Student data-privacy is supposedly protected on the federal level by the Family Educational…
Colorado student data privacy bill on its way to becoming law
Joey Bunch reports: A bill to protect students’ online privacy while they are doing their school work is on its way to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. The Colorado House gave it final passage Thursday with a 65-0 vote. House Bill 1423 would prevent educational software and app makers from collecting any data that…