David McCabe reports: A major tech trade group expressed concerns Thursday with a House student privacy bill that it said would “create undue costs for our member companies” without sufficient benefit to any involved party. The legislation in question is an update of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, the main federal law that…
Category: Youth & Schools
Educational apps shouldn’t collect student data
From an editorial on CitizensVoice: Students might get more than they expect when their parents use smart-phone “apps” to improve communication with school districts and teachers, or when teachers use educational apps to enhance classroom instruction. When the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette looked at apps used by 31 large Pennsylvania school systems, it found that just 11…
Schools releasing student personal information: How to stop it
Amy Davis reports that in Texas, some school districts are no longer sharing what is called “Directory Information” under FERPA, but some districts still are. As background, she notes that in 2010, Channel 2 News requested and received a list of student directory information for every first-grader enrolled in the Houston Independent School District. We…
CA: Teenager Charged in Online Revenge Porn Case; Posed as Model Agent
A 19-year-old man was charged on August 21st with more than 150 counts after he was accused of extorting young girls into sending him naked photos, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Cesar Mauricio Estrada-Davila (dob 3/22/96) of Rosemead has been charged with 109 felony and 42 misdemeanor counts in case MA066758: 21 counts…