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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
Federal student privacy laws need a second look – OpEd
April Newell writes: After serving as an orientation leader during this semester’s move-in, I thought I knew Emerson’s alcohol and drug policy inside and out. During training, we were drilled on the privacy rights of students and the details of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA. College students are legally entitled to…
States Backtrack on Student Tracking Technology
Jeffrey Stinson reports: Do you know where your student is? At school? On the bus? Paying for lunch in the cafeteria? Principals in thousands of the nation’s schools know the answer because radio frequency chips are embedded in students’ ID cards, or their schools are equipped with biometric scanners that can identify portions of a…