The following is cross-posted from DataBreaches.net, where you can find extensive coverage of a 2013 breach at Maricopa County Community Colleges District (MCCCD) that affected almost 2.5 million. Earlier this year, I reached out to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), to encourage them to join DataBreaches.net in filing a complaint with the FTC concerning the massive…
Category: Youth & Schools
West Australia teachers access student email with tweaked Office 365
Paris Cowan reports: Privacy advocates have raised concerns about functionality built into West Australian school student email accounts which offers some education staff unsupervised access to stored messages. The so-called ‘duty of care’ feature was built into WA schools’ Microsoft Office for Education cloud email service in late 2013, according to the WA Department of…
Helena judge orders state to release rape case records
Martin Kidston reports: A Helena judge has granted author Jon Krakauer’s request to inspect documents he believes are on file with the Montana University System regarding the 2012 disciplinary hearing of University of Montana Grizzlies quarterback Jordan Johnson. Helena District Court Judge Kathy Seeley granted Krakauer’s motion on Thursday and denied the commissioner of higher education’s request to keep…
Big Data in the Classroom (Room for Debate)
Pointer: The New York Times‘ Room for Debate focuses on big data in education. You can access the debaters’ opinions here.