AAP reports: Children who fight with extremist groups could be prevented from returning to Australia under plans to expand powers to gather biometric data. The Senate has passed legislation to beef up the country’s biometrics system, permitting the collection of data from children as young as 10 without parental consent. Fingerprints, and potentially iris scans…
Category: Youth & Schools
How safe is your kids’ digital data at school?
CBS News reports: As summer vacation winds down, new legislation is raising concern over digital privacy at school. Nationwide, only four states prohibit kids’ personal information from being shared by schools with third party vendors, like marketers. Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer said until a couple of years ago, many schools weren’t even…
New Project Tackles Unlocking Student Data While Protecting Privacy
Jill Barshay writes: LearnSphere, a new $5 million federally-funded project at Carnegie Mellon University, aims to become “the biggest open repository of education data” in the world, according to the project leader, Ken Koedinger. If you think that sounds ambitious and a lot like inBloom, the Gates Foundation-funded non-profit that shut its doors in 2014 after…
Changes are coming to FERPA, including the potential for fines
Joseph W. Cornelison of Husch Blackwell LLP writes: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce recently announced the introduction of a bill to amend FERPA. The Student Privacy Protection Act (H.R. 3157) has bipartisan support and is intended to modernize privacy protections, improve communication, and “hold schools, states and independent entities accountable for their use of…