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…
Category: Youth & Schools
CO: Jeffco schools to help set national standards for student privacy
Doug Hrdlicka reports: A new partnership between Jeffco Public Schools and 26 other districts nationwide could lead to more rigid security measures for student data. For the next six months 27 school districts, working with The Consortium for School Networking, will work toward establishing a nationwide set of standards around student privacy. The end result will…
Students under surveillance
Helen Warrell reports: A week after students begin their distance learning courses at the UK’s Open University this October, a computer program will have predicted their final grade. An algorithm monitoring how much the new recruits have read of their online textbooks, and how keenly they have engaged with web learning forums, will cross-reference this…
KY: Glasgow school district updates policy on search and seizure
I wish every local community had the kind of detailed reporting on student privacy issues that Melinda J. Overstreet provides in her coverage of a change in Glasgow Independent Schools’ policies. From the newly drafted policies: “In the school environment, a search is permissible where a school official has reasonable grounds, a ‘suspicion,’ based upon…