Monica Scott reports: A Wyoming teen could sue her teacher for invading her privacy after the instructor wrote an inappropriate tweet about the student’s medical and academic information that led to the teacher receiving a 13-day unpaid suspension, according to Nelson Miller, associate dean for West Michigan University Cooley Law School in Grand Rapids. “I’m sure the…
Category: Youth & Schools
Privacy fears in AU: Parents being asked to sign blanket permission forms allowing schools to publish online photos of their children
From the really-horrible-idea dept. Ian Walker reports: Schools are asking parents for blanket permission to publish online photographs and videos of their children taken in class, the playground and on excursions. The updated enrolment forms have sparked fears children’s information put onto websites and social media, on top of the usual school newsletter and magazine, could…
EDITORIAL: An Invasion of Student Privacy
An editorial in the Daily Free Press begins: Most American students have had some level of sexual health education in high school, but Clemson University in South Carolina has demanded that all of its students participate in an online Title IX Training Course to increase knowledge of sexual safety and help avoid instances of sexual…
Survey: Parents Would Prefer Ban on Data Tracking in Free School Email Services
Dian Schaffhauser reports: Compared to parents in Malaysia, Poland and Italy, American parents look like babes in the woods when it comes to awareness of in-school data mining of their children’s information, including online behavior and email habits. Whereas 75 percent of Malaysians, 71 percent of Poles and 70 percent of Italians are aware of…