Anya Kemenetz reports: Ken Yeh is the director of technology at Ontario Christian Schools, a private K-12 school near Los Angeles with about 100 children per grade. […] Google software, like that of other companies, comes with virus protection and the ability to filter search results and block certain Web sites, but Ontario Christian Schools…
Category: Youth & Schools
A Crisis With Little Data: States Begin To Count Drug-Dependent Babies
I know that there are a lot of well-intentioned folks who think fighting data collection is always a Good Thing, or that at the very least, opt-in consent should always be required, even for research purposes. But here’s a good example of why we don’t want to totally hamstring research that’s important for informing policy…
Colorado Student Privacy Bill Authors Call It The Toughest In US
Shaun Boyd reports that State Rep. Alec Garnett and State Rep. Paul Lundeen have teamed up on a bipartisan student privacy bill that would define “what is the data that’s being collected, who can see it, what can they do with it, who can they share it with and under what circumstances can it be shared, and…
PogoWasRight.org files complaint with FTC concerning children’s privacy online
Earlier this week, I posed some questions to readers about tracking/monitoring your children, and the privacy of children who communicate with your child when they don’t know that you’re monitoring/seeing every private message or image. I asked you all to think about this question: So it’s okay with you if some other child’s parents are…