Samantha Watkins reports: Even as the Department of Education hammers colleges to be more transparent in their handling of sexual-assault allegations, it’s helping schools to legally hide their investigations from public scrutiny. That’s because the agency takes a broad view of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), arguing that the student-privacy law shields…
Category: Youth & Schools
AU: Student Opal card privacy concerns limit university participation
Pallavi Singhal reports: Privacy concerns have stopped Sydney University from joining the rollout of student Opal concession cards, with new figures showing only five of 290 eligible tertiary institutions have signed on. Institutions are required to “share eligibility information” with Transport for NSW before their students can begin using Opal card in February. “The university…
Bill seeks to keep ND college students’ email addresses, phone numbers private
I missed this one when it first appeared, but it’s noteworthy. Mike Nowatzki reported: An ad agency’s request for the phone numbers and email addresses of North Dakota college students during the recent campaign season has prompted the state Board of Higher Education to ask lawmakers to exempt students’ contact information from the state’s open records…
Nationalist Party writes to Malta’s data commissioner on Education Directorate’s children’s privacy data requests
Duncan Barry reports: The Nationalist Party has written to the Data Protection Commissioner Saviour Cachia urging him to investigate the Education Directorate’s request to certain parents for private information on their children. The PN asked Mr Cachia to verify whether the collection of data is being done in accordance with the provisions of the Data…