AP reports: Missouri students’ Social Security numbers will be removed from a statewide database, the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said in response to an audit released Wednesday that was aimed at increasing data security. The report by Auditor Nicole Galloway said compiling Social Security numbers put students’ personal information at risk in…
Category: Youth & Schools
Schools, Government Agencies Move to Share Student Data
Benjamin Herold reports: The struggle to protect students’ privacy while making use of the data collected on them in school has for years been focused on the role of outside companies. But while that debate has raged in Congress and statehouses across the country, K-12 school systems in more than a dozen cities and counties…
Pennsylvania Legislation to Set Student Data Privacy Standards
Rich Lord reports: The homework assignments, essays, musings and instant messages today’s students are entering into educational websites and applications would be subject to new data privacy standards under legislation introduced today in Harrisburg. State Rep. Dan Miller, D-Mt. Lebanon, and Tedd Nesbit, R-Grove City, have introduced two-bills that would stop short of outlawing controversial…
What the Count 19 app tells us about the paradox of innovation and anonymity
Stuart Thomas reports: A new app, which includes a matric learner as one of its developers, has a South African high school up in arms. Called Count 19, the app allows people to broadcast anonymous messages to anyone near them who also has it installed and started gaining traction in the last week or so….