KTAL reports: In a few days every student at Saint Ignatius, Gilmour Academy and Saint Edward will be required to lose a chunk of hair like this. It will determine if they’ve used drugs in the last hundred days. They learned about the new program last year and if they had been using, had the…
Category: Youth & Schools
California Protects Student Data Privacy with Two Bills
Tanya Roscorla writes: Over the last year, student data privacy conversations have been percolating across the nation, but now state legislatures are doing something about it. California sent two bills to Gov. Jerry Brown last week that deal with two sides of the same coin. SB 1177 lays out privacy guidelines for operators of Internet websites, online services,…
Celebrity nude pics hacking turns into child porn case over Maroney pictures
Charles Arthur reports: Investigations into the targeted hacking of celebrities’ iPhone accounts have turned into a child abuse case after it emerged that the US Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney, one of the alleged victims, was under 18 at the time some nude photos were taken. Under US and other laws, it is illegal to own…
Mt: New legal notice on student data ‘enhances safeguards on use of data’
Miriam Dalli reports on a new standard for student privacy in Malta: A new legal notice on the collection of student data has introduced important safeguards on how the data collected is to be utilised, addressing concerns raised by education professionals and parents on the rights of students, and minimising risks of the data being…