Jon Banister reports: The House of Delegates and state Senate both passed bills to strengthen students’ online privacy by prohibiting universities from intruding on private social media accounts. The chambers passed slightly different versions of the bill and are voting this week on a uniform final version to send to Gov. Larry Hogan. The bill…
Category: Youth & Schools
Advocates say companies, schools invade student privacy with data mining
Moriah Costa reports: Susan Buzin never thought she would homeschool her children. But after researching data changes to the Chester County, Pennsylvania, school district, she discovered that loopholes in the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act means her children’s identifying information is released to third-party vendors and collected into a data system. “It makes me…
Electronic Health Records and Adolescent Privacy
Charles G. Kels, JD writes to the Editors of JAMA: In their Viewpoint on the confidentiality of electronic health records (EHRs), Dr Bayer and colleagues made a compelling case that the benefits of EHRs must be weighed against the challenges they pose to adolescent and parental privacy. Read his full letter and the authors’ reply on JAMA.
Students Claim New Anti-Cheating Technology Invades Privacy
Lauren R.D. Fox reports: Rutgers University and other academic institutions are using a monitoring program, Proctortrack, that reveals if a student is cheating on an exam for their online course. Betsey Chao, a senior at Rutgers told The New York Times, she had to download the software on her computer and it uses her webcam to scan her…