Caroline McGuire reports: Most parents go to every length to protect their unborn child. But since the advent of social media, mothers and fathers are letting their guard down and uploading countless pictures of their children on the internet. More than 900 images of children are being shared online by parents before their fifth birthday,…
Category: Youth & Schools
Unfair Admissions Criteria?
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…
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…