Heather Sells reports: Student privacy advocates are hailing a new law in Missouri that bans school districts from tracking students using radio frequency technology. Last week, state lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto of the bill. Read more on CBN
Category: Youth & Schools
A day in the life of a data mined kid
Adrienne Hill reports: Education, like pretty much everything else in our lives these days, is driven by data. Our childrens’ data. A whole lot of it. Nearly everything they do at school can be — and often is — recorded and tracked, and parents don’t always know what information is being collected, where it’s going,…
Are parental concerns with fingerprint biometrics ‘techno panic’
Pippa writes: As North Adams School in Massachusetts plans to use fingerprint biometrics to improve lunch line efficiency, some parents are understandably concerned about how using a biometric system erodes their children’s privacy. Most of the articles on North Adams School adopting biometrics seek to reassure parents and readers that its not a database of fingerprints but just…
UK: School pupils to be fingerprinted
The Express & Star reports: Pupils will have their fingerprints taken at their £20,000 high-tech new school canteen in a bid to reduce queues and monitor pupils’ diets. Redhill School in Stourbridge will bring in the controversial technology as part of a plan to implement a cashless system throughout the school. The system requires pupils…