Paul Feely reports: The Board of School Committee held a public hearing Monday night on a policy governing the use of audio and video recordings in city classrooms. A new state law, RSA 189:68, requires school districts to hold public hearings on recordings that might be made in a public classroom, and to obtain permission from…
Category: Youth & Schools
In Court: EPIC Urges Massachusetts to Protect Student Privacy
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed an amicus brief in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court regarding a student privacy case. EPIC said that the police should obtain a warrant before seizing a student’s cell phone. Citing a recent Supreme Court case, EPIC explained “Modern cell phones . . . implicate privacy concerns far beyond those implicated by the search of…
K-12 Schools Must Teach Data Privacy and Security
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…
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…