David Chazan reports: French parents are being warned to stop posting pictures of children on social networks in case their offspring later sue them for breaching their right to privacy or jeopardising their security. Under France’s stringent privacy laws, parents could face penalties as severe as a year in prison and a fine of €45,000…
Category: Youth & Schools
Is your child’s information in caught up in a company’s breach? And would you even know?
Over on DataBreaches.net, I’ve previously reported on a misconfigured uKnowKids database that left children’s information exposed without any login authentication required. That incident, and their horrid incident response, raised other questions for me, though, about the extent to which kids whose parents have not signed up for the tracking/monitoring service have any privacy rights that may be…
Student data protection bill idled in Georgia Senate
Ty Tagami reports: A student data protection bill got bottled up in a legislative committee Wednesday after a state education official testified that its requirements were onerous. Senate Bill 281 places “draconian restrictions” on schools that “are not acceptable to us,” said Lou Erste, an associate superintendent with the Georgia Department of Education. It started…
Editorial: Keep student data private in special-ed lawsuit
An editorial in the Los Angeles Times today addresses a situation and court ruling I have previously described as “so bad on so many levels:” What was U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller thinking when she ordered the state to release demographic and personal information about all public school students, including their names, Social Security numbers (if…