Dominic Lynch writes: A back-to-school interactive project at Loyola University Chicago asking students to weigh in on what they are most worried about today found students are far more concerned with liberal issues such as climate change and misogyny than they are with more traditional matters, such as liberty and privacy. Loyola’s student government had…
Category: Youth & Schools
OK: Education School officials say state Education Department violated student privacy laws
Kim Archer reports that the same state education department that upset the hell out of privacy advocates by publicly posting students’ personal details if they applied for a waiver of state tests still doesn’t grasp their obligations to rigorously protect student privacy: Some area school officials say the Oklahoma State Department of Education has violated…
Keeping students healthy or invasion of privacy?
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…
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,…