Dan Tynan writes: Worried about what happens to all that data your child is generating while in school? There are things you can do to gain more control over what happens to your child’s data. None are as easy as installing an app or changing browser settings, but here’s what you can do now. Read…
Category: Youth & Schools
Future of Privacy Forum Launches Website for Student Privacy
From their press release: As schools increasingly rely on data to improve education, and as teachers increasingly rely on technology in the classroom to improve the learning experience, privacy concerns are being raised about the collection and use of student data. With ‘back to school’ now in full-swing, and to address both the promise and…
KS: Topeka Unified School District 501 admits student privacy violations, says breach corrected
Celia Llopis-Jepsen reports: Principals and some other educators in Topeka Unified School District 501 could until last week illegally access data that identifies which of the district’s students come from low-income families. Four of the district’s schools also displayed the same information — which is protected under federal law as confidential — on color-coded, wall-hanging…
Comptroller DiNapoli: Schools Must Do More to Limit Access to Sensitive Student Databases
Yes, it’s as bad as I’ve been saying for years. Now if they will just audit the NYC Department of Education, too. Employees in six upstate New York school districts had inappropriate computer access to sensitive student data and were able to change student grades and attendance records without proper authorization, according to an audit released today…