Over on PHIprivacy.net, I’ve posted links to some articles concerning ebola, HIPAA, and public health authorities. But Elizabeth Litten raises another aspect when students are involved: Recent news articles regarding a New Jersey elementary school’s handling of the enrollment of two new students from Rwanda provided another glimpse of Ebola hysteria and the opportunity for me to follow…
Category: Youth & Schools
KR: Civil watchdog launches to protect students’ personal info
The Korea Herald reports: A civil organization has been launched to protect students’ personal information within education fields. Parents’ Union on Net announced Tuesday the launch of the Student Privacy Association, or SPA, organized by multiple civil organizations, to reestablish the significance of protecting students’ privacy and promote relevant governmental policies to support the movement….
EPIC Obtains New Documents About Lack of Student Privacy Enforcement
In July, I summarized patterns I saw in documents obtained by EPIC from the Department of Education. The documents were the Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO)’s responses to complaints by students and parents alleging FERPA violations. Since then, EPIC has received additional interim batches of responses to their freedom of information request. They write: EPIC has obtained new…
AU: Sydney University forces paper to pull name of student accused of sexual harrassment
AAP reports: Sydney University has come under fire for pressuring a student newspaper into pulling the identity of a male student named and shamed over a sexual misconduct claim. The article in Honi Soit headlined “Uni fails sexual harassment victim” examined the university’s response to a case where a naked photo of a female student…