Eryk Bagshaw reports: Sydney schools are employing “big brother” data collection technology to track whether students are finishing their homework, skipping classes as well as how much their parents are likely to donate. This week it was revealed that 34 schools in NSW – including The King’s School and Barker College – were using software…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: MoD requested sensitive pupil data… by mistake
Parents of school children in the U.K. might understandably feel that their children’s privacy is increasingly under attack these past few weeks. First, there was Waltham Forest Council administering questionnaires to students in schools with large Muslim enrollment asking how much the students trust the police and people from another race or religion. And now Schools Week reveals that the…
Oregon Student Privacy Bill Heads To House Floor
Rob Manning reports: Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum threw her support behind legislation aimed at protecting student online privacy Thursday. The bill is attracting criticism in the state House. Senate Bill 187, or the student privacy bill, aims to stop vendors from using their software to advertise to students, or to collect and store students’ personal information. Read…
Ed Tech Must Embrace Stronger Student Privacy Laws
Bradley Shear writes, in part: The most comprehensive student privacy law is the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which was enacted in 1974 when educational records were generally physically static and contained a limited number of data points about students. While technology has drastically changed during the last 40 years, FERPA has…