In a post earlier this morning, I agreed with Danah Boyd that not enough attention is being paid to the criminal justice threat model in discussing student privacy and in attempts to reform FERPA. Now look at this article on Inside Higher Ed by Scott Jaschik and consider these statistics: Almost three-quarters of colleges and…
Category: Youth & Schools
Which students get to have privacy?
Danah Boyd has a commentary on efforts to reform FERPA that cuts to the heart of some issues. She writes, in part: The bills are pretty spectacularly different, pushing for a range of mechanisms to limit abuses of student data. Some are fine-driven; others take a more criminal approach. There are also differences in who…
High School Forces Student to Remove Online Photos Under Threat of Suspension
Michael Archambault reports: Imagine assembling a portfolio of over 4,000 photographs and then being forced to make it disappear or face life-altering consequences; that’s the situation sophomore Anthony Mazur is currently facing at Flower Mound High School in his Texas hometown. After discovering the love of sports photography, the Lewisville Independent School District is now claiming that Anthony’s photographs…
UK: University concludes ‘Jihadi John’ image leak probe: ‘Extremely troubled by the data breach’
William Turvill reports: The University of Westminster has “concluded” an investigation into the source of a leaked picture of Islamic State fighter Mohammed Emwazi. The institution, attended by the man dubbed “Jihadi John”, said it was “extremely troubled” after the image from Emwazi’s student records appeared on Sky News and then in the rest of…