Challen Stephens reports: A secret program to monitor students’ online activities began quietly in Huntsville schools, following a phone call from the NSA, school officials say. Huntsville schools Superintendent Casey Wardynski says the system began monitoring social media sites 18 months ago, after the National Security Agency tipped the school district to a student making violent…
Category: Youth & Schools
Back to School: Get Your Digital Rights Student Group Started Right Away
April Glaser of EFF writes: Watch for it. This year student protest and resistance to mass surveillance might be bursting at the seams. The Internet, which students across the world have grown up with, is under threat. And now more than ever, student leaders are contacting EFF, wanting to know how to get involved to…
Do you really need to include that personal information?
Robert Gregory of Maddocks writes about an AU case: A complainant has been awarded $7500 by the Federal Privacy Commissioner as a result of highly private personal information about him being included in an Information Pack for School Council members. The case sends a clear message to schools that they should carefully consider whether to…
NL: School tablets company found to violate student privacy
Telecompaper reports some great student privacy protection by the Dutch privacy regulator: The Dutch privacy regulator CBP has found that a company renting tablets to schools violated the privacy of students. Snappet, the company that rents tablets with built-in apps to over 400 primary schools, was using personal data on the devices to compare students…