AP reports: A proposed bill to protect the privacy of students’ social media accounts would mandate that Wyoming Department of Education officials draft a statewide data privacy policy. From Facebook to Instagram, Senate File 14 would prohibit teachers and school officials from requiring students to provide access to personal accounts. The bill includes a $1,000…
Category: Youth & Schools
New student database slammed by privacy experts
Valerie Strauss reports: The U.S. Education Department’s new planned system of records that will collect detailed data on thousands of students — and transfer records to private contractors — is being slammed by experts who say there are not adequate privacy safeguards embedded in the project. The non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, told…
UK: Surveillance tribunal refers child privacy claim to information commissioner
Julia Gregory reports: A claim that children’s privacy online is being breached under the Prism surveillance programme is being referred to the information commissioner. At a preliminary hearing behind closed doors, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which looks into complaints about surveillance, ruled that it did not have the power to consider a case brought by Kevin Cahill. Cahill…
Privacy and Ed-tech in 2016
Brian Schaller of InfoLawGroup provides yeoman service by recapping legislative news in 2015 in ed-tech: There was a lot of legislative movement for the educational technology (ed-tech) industry in 2015 with states placing additional privacy regulations on the industry, and the effects of those new acts should be felt this year. The states that passed…