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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
Murky Federal Privacy Law Puts MOOC Student Data in Questionable Territory
D. Frank Smith reports: The federal government may be legally powerless to protect data collected from students taking massive open online courses (MOOCs), according to a U.S. Department of Education spokeswoman, and two of the largest MOOC platforms disagree on the boundaries of the law in question. MOOC platforms have amassed a treasure trove of…
Complaint Says Ring Pop Campaign Violated Children’s Privacy
Natasha Singer reports: In many ways, it was a typical social media marketing campaign featuring user-generated content — only this promotion involved a brand popular with children. Earlier this year, the company behind Ring Pop, a jewel-shaped sucking candy on a plastic ring, ran a contest called #RockThatRock. It invited users to post photos on Facebook, Twitter…