Paul Feely reports: The Manchester school board’s Coordination Committee is scheduled to review a new district policy governing the use of audio and video recordings in city classrooms when it meets next week.[…] The law currently states, “No school shall record in any way a school classroom for any purpose without school board approval after…
Category: Youth & Schools
District 211 doesn’t rescind deal on transgender student after heated debate
It sounds like OCR blinked. Duaa Eldeib reports: District officials had maintained that the agreement did not represent a districtwide policy and only applied to the student in question. Earlier Monday, the district released a letter from the Office for Civil Rights in which officials agreed that the settlement’s provision on locker room access applies…
Hello Barbie’s POODLE problem, and other security issues with internet-connected doll
As if you needed any more reasons not to buy Hello Barbie, Graham Cluley writes: Hello Barbie, the internet-connected talking doll from toymaker Mattel, isn’t receiving the best publicity at the moment. We have had concerns raised by privacy advocates about Hello Barbie, and now more researchers are uncovering security problems. Bluebox Labs has published a report uncovering that…
Does U.S. Children’s Privacy Law Apply to Google?
Scott Cleland writes: How the FTC handles the EFF petition charging that Google has violated its enforceable pledge to protect K-12 students’ privacy will speak volumes to the world about two big things. First, whether FTC Commissioners believe Google is subject to U.S. privacy law, or not. And second, whether Google’s uniquely bad privacy rap sheet, combined with its unique “mass…