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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
TN: Schools officials plan talks over possible privacy violation
Jason Gonzales reports: Nashville schools officials have scheduled a meeting with two women about a possible student privacy rights violation tied to an alleged testing scandal. Almost identical letters were sent to Metro Nashville Public Schools employees Shana West and Kelly Brown on Dec. 30 requesting separate meetings on Wednesday because of what the district called an “apparent violation” of the Family Education Rights and Privacy…