Vikki Ortiz Healy reports: When Courtney Lorentz’s 6-year-old daughter brought home an iPad from school last fall, the Deerfield, Ill., mom wanted assurance that the thoughts, ideas and personal information her daughter typed into the device would not follow her for years to come – or be sold to marketing companies for a quick buck….
Category: Youth & Schools
IE: Discussions ongoing over primary school database
Elaine Edwards reports: Discussions are continuing between the Data Protection Commissioner and the Department of Education on a new primary school database which will hold a range of personal information about pupils, including information about ethnicity and religion, and students’ special needs. Primary school principals were asked to start populating the new Primary Online Database, which will…
UVa asks Congress to clarify student privacy laws
Derek Quizon reports: The University of Virginia wants Congress to reform federal student privacy laws that officials say restrict schools’ ability to communicate with law enforcement about sexual assault cases involving students. Dr. Richard Shannon, executive vice president for health affairs at UVa, talked about the proposal at a meeting of a Board of Visitors committee….
MI: Student Government poses Yik Yak resolution
Courtney Morrison reports: Anonymity is considered one of the best benefits of the Internet. People are free to say what they want, how they want, at the click of a button. What happens though when people go too far? On November 7th 2014 student government, here at UMD [University of Michigan-Dearborn], passed a resolution calling…