Alex Sakariassen reports: University of Montana law student Daniel Knudsen filed suit against UM this week over alleged violations of privacy rights. Knudsen’s complaint, filed on behalf of all students enrolled at UM from spring 2010 to the present, claims the university illegally released his and others’ personally identifiable information to Connecticut-based Higher One Holdings,…
Category: Youth & Schools
New L.A. student records system badly mishandled, report concludes
Let’s compile massive databases on students where the databases are riddled with errors. It’s good preparation for when they’re adults and have credit reports. Howard Blume reports: The rollout of a new student records system for Los Angeles schools was problematic at just about every level, according to a consultant’s report released Thursday. […] In…
Getting Caught Up: News You May Have Missed
Below are links to news developments or commentaries published during the two days that PogoWasRight.org was unavailable. They are semi-organized by topic, with some overlap between sections. Great thanks to Joe Cadillic, who helped me keep track of what I needed to save while the site was suffering from Table Dysfunction Disorder: Businesses: Suspect in rape/abduction…
Steve McDonald on Cloud Computing and FERPA (video interview)
From SafeGov.org: Tracy Mitrano, former director of IT Policy and current Director of the Internet Culture, Policy, and Law Program (ICPL) at Cornell University, recently sat down with Steve McDonald, General Counsel at the Rhode Island School of Design and a well-known expert on FERPA. Mitrano interviewed McDonald on a range of issues covering FERPA…