Ugh, ugh, ugh. Don Plan reports: When Sally picked up an envelope from a government office in Kelowna, she didn’t expect to find the private details of a suicidal teenager inside. Sally (not her real name) is a foster mom who stopped in to collect a one-page form she had to fill out for the…
Category: Youth & Schools
Draft of President Obama’s Student-Data-Privacy Bill Raises Questions
Benjamin Herold reports: New federal student-data-privacy legislation being crafted by the White House would prohibit education technology vendors from selling student information and directing targeted advertisements at students, but the legislation remains silent on other controversial industry practices, according to documents obtained by Education Week. Since President Barack Obama announced earlier this month that he would seek…
Detention of a minor based on a report from a friend she was suicidal was reasonable – Court
John Wesley Hall points us to an appellate decision in the Seventh Circuit: This minor’s § 1983 suit alleges a Fourth Amendment violation when she was taken to a hospital and subjected to a mental health examination based a report from a school friend that she had attempted to kill herself. The police officer who went…
Google Signs Student Privacy Pledge After Pressure From Schools And President Obama’s Endorsement
Sara Guaglione writes: Last week, Google was noticeably absent from a list of 75 companies, including Apple and Microsoft, from a student privacy pledge endorsed by President Obama. But it seems Google experienced a change of heart and has now signed up. Google, along with a new batch of education-technology companies, has officially signed the pledge, according…