David Maly reports: Student Body President Kori Rady illegally leaked the personal information of roughly 140 UT students in a May 5 email, according to university interpretation of federal law. Rady sent the email to Phillip Wiseman, then chief justice of the Student Government Judicial Court, in an effort to respond to a student’s request…
Category: Youth & Schools
ClassDojo Adopts Deletion Policy for Student Data
See what shining the light on a problem can do? Natasha Singer reports: The maker of ClassDojo, a popular behavioral tracking app used in schools across the United States, announced revisions on Tuesday in the way it retains student information. Starting in January, the company intends to keep students’ behavioral records for only one school…
Loss of privacy is taking a huge emotional toll: J-Law
As long-time readers know, this blog has always taken the position that celebrities are still entitled to privacy. And with that in mind, this site has often avoided posting news items about people whose private sex tapes or sensitive information has been uploaded to the Internet without their knowledge or consent. Not surprisingly, the recent exposure…
Ca: Staff didn’t breach student’s privacy by reading text, judge rules
Hannah Spray reports: If anyone did something wrong when a Prince Albert student’s phone was seized and used in a stolen car investigation, it was the police – not school staff, according to a judge’s decision on a lawsuit filed by the student’s family. The grandparents of the student, who was 12 years old at…