Daniel Rivero reports on a story previously noted on this blog: An alleged phone call from the NSA prompted public school officials in an Alabama school district to launch a surveillance program to monitor students’ online activities, administrators of the Huntsville City School District now admit. The NSA allegedly took an interest in the Lee…
Category: Youth & Schools
California enacts strict student privacy law
AP reports: Gov. Jerry Brown has approved what supporters say will be the nation’s toughest law in protecting students’ privacy rights. The governor announced Monday that he had signed SB1177. The bill by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat from Sacramento, prohibits companies from using students’ personal information for profit. Read more on News10….
EPIC Urges FTC to Investigate Maricopa County Community Colleges Data Breach
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…
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…