Amelia Vance, Director of Education Data and Technology for the National Association of State Boards of Education writes: Experts predicted that student data privacy would be a major issue in 2015, and they were right: As of March 26, state legislatures in 41 states had introduced a combined 160 student privacy bills, more than the…
Category: Youth & Schools
Needed: Strict privacy rules for NYC public school students’ cell-phones
Johanna Miller, the advocacy director for the New York Civil Liberties Union, writes: A student’s cell phone isn’t a wallet or hairbrush. Its contents can be as personal as a diary. In a Texas school district, for example, a teacher seized a student’s phone and searched her text-message history, discovering a private nude photograph she had…
Hampden Wilbraham Regional School Committee says NO to giving PARCC access to students’ social media accounts
Dave Madsen reports: WILBRAHAM, Mass (WGGB) — Protecting a student’s right to privacy. The Hampden Wilbraham Regional School Committee saying no to giving the company that oversees PARCC testing access to student’s (sic) social media accounts. School committee members taking a stand for student’s rights to privacy. In a letter to the Massachusetts department of elementary and…
Privacy policies and Security– can we get it right???
In a parent perspective on privacy, Olga Garcia-Kaplan writes: We talk about building trust so that we can work on protecting student data privacy, but it is difficult to protect student privacy only with policy. We need to also advocate for proper encryption of databases and privacy training. Only when we educate users (schools, districts,…