Benjamin Herold reports: How long should vendors be allowed to maintain and use the information they collect about school children? The question cuts to the heart of the tensions that define the digital learning revolution now underway, said Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a professor of Internet governance and regulation at England’s Oxford University. “Big” educational data, new…
Category: Youth & Schools
Official claims University released student emails to politicians
Angie DeWitt reports: Despite official denials, West Virginia University shared student email addresses in bulk form with politicians competing in the 2012 general election according to several insider sources, and some candidates may be using those emails in their 2014 races. Both Republican and Democratic parties in West Virginia requested and obtained WVU student email…
Security experts, civil group urge student data protection
Korea Herald reports: The need to create an environment for better protecting students’ private information in the age of cloud computing was the hot topic at a recent seminar hosted on Friday by the Student Privacy Association, a civil watchdog group committed to protecting students’ personal information. A dozen experts and officials from local security…
Article: The Proverbial ‘Permanent Record’
Thanks to Margot Kaminski for making me aware of this article by Elana Zeide, “The Proverbial ‘Permanent Record’.” Abstract: The debate about student privacy is highly emotional and divisive. One prominent fear is that current and proposed information practices have created a proverbial “permanent record” that will tether students to their pasts and limit opportunities…