RAPSI reports that since May, when monitoring began, Russia’s telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, has identified over 2,500 websites that provide personal data on children in violation of the law. Read more on RAPSI.
Category: Youth & Schools
KS: School administrators revisit student data security
Celia Llopis-Jepsen reports that a breach involving the Topeka USD 501 and its follow-up have resulted in the state sending out a reminder to all districts: Recent revelations about data privacy violations in Topeka Unified School District 501 have prompted administrators in other school districts to review their compliance with federal law. In an Aug….
School district administrator demoted over FERPA violations discovered by parent
Ellen Meder reports: Schools inevitably amass a lot of information about their students: name, contact information, medical information and all the tidbits that make up an educational record. How and when that information can shared is tightly restricted on by the federal law Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). When personal information is shared…
New Data-Mining ‘Opt-Out’ Form to Combat Common Core
Merrill Hope reports: Breitbart Texas has learned that a new “Student Privacy Protection Request Form” has been released by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national non-profit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The “data-mining” opt-out form was designed to protect students from Big Data’s chokehold on the classroom. It was crafted with the…