Dan Solove writes: It is essential that children learn about data privacy and security. Their lives will be fully enveloped by technologies that involve data. But far too little about these topics is currently taught in most schools. Fortunately, there is a solution, one that I’m proud to have been involved in creating. The Internet…
Category: Youth & Schools
Massachusetts Senate passes public education, social media privacy legislation
Wicked Local reports: The Massachusetts Senate passed a variety of pieces of legislation covering veterans, public education and social media privacy. […] S.2034: An Act Relative to Social Media Privacy Protection, prohibits any public or private institution providing elementary, secondary or higher education from requiring a student or applicant to disclose a username, password or…
No Harm, No Foul in Student Info Sales
Jack Bouboushian reports: College-bound students cannot show they were harmed by the ACT and College Board’s sale of their Social Security numbers and other personal information, the Seventh Circuit ruled. […] “A plaintiff’s claim of injury in fact cannot be based solely on a defendant’s gain; it must be based on a plaintiff’s loss. Here,…
AZ: Student privacy issues raised after Havasu switches data systems
Ryan Abella reports: Mohave County Republicans are pushing back against what they are calling “student data mining” at the state level, comparing it to “the Soviet Union’s policy of separating children from their family to be taught in highly structured schools set up for educating and indoctrinating the students,” according to an October news release….