Lucy Ward reports: The universities admissions service, Ucas, broke data protection rules when it signed up teenagers to receive adverts about mobile phones, energy drinks and other products, the information commissioner has ruled. The University and Colleges Admissions Service must now change its application form and privacy policy because of the ruling, which follows an…
Category: Youth & Schools
CT: Wilton’s Lavielle Applauds Unanimous Support For Student Privacy Bill
Frank Mojica reports: State Rep. Gail Lavielle (R-143rd District) applauded the recent passage of a bill protecting the privacy of K-12 student data by the General Assembly’s Education Committee. Both of the committee’s co-chairs agreed to raise a committee bill, HB 7017, based on a concept bill introduced earlier in the session by Lavielle, who represents Norwalk,…
MD: House of Delegates, Senate pass bills to strengthen students’ online privacy
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…
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…