Oh, FFS. Seriously. Amanda Ober reports: Controversy surrounds the school district’s decision to monitor students’ and teachers’ social media posts. Orange County Public Schools has started monitoring students’ and teachers’ social media posts with a new software program called “Snaptrends.” It allows the school district to search thousands of posts on sites like Twitter and…
Category: Youth & Schools
Universities are using data analytics to assess students mental health and much more
Joe Cadillic has a blog post about student privacy that touches on a lot of concerns about what universities are doing. While I’ve covered some of the situations and articles he writes about, he really does a good job of pulling them together in one post to show how pervasive the tracking/data analytics problem is becoming. Read his post…
Trusting parents to make smart choices on student data
Jules Polonetsky and Brenda Leong write: … One key issue has emerged as a point of contention among many of the proposed bills. Should parents have the right to tell a company holding their child’s data to enable additional services, such as sending homework information to a tutoring service or sending a transcript to a…
UK: Children should be able to delete photos and information from the web
Victoria Ward reports: Children should have the option of deleting incriminating information or photographs of themselves posted online, ministers believe. A series of internet rights for under-18s has been proposed in order to avoid embarrassment or compromised job prospects in later life. Businesses and groups are being urged to sign up the iRights plan, which also calls for expiry…