Martin Evans reports: A schoolgirl has received a police caution after texting an explicit photograph of herself to her boyfriend, it has emerged. The teenager sent the image via her phone, but after the couple had a row, he forwarded it to his friends. Police were called in because she was under the age of…
Category: Youth & Schools
EPIC Obtains FERPA Complaints from Education Department
From EPIC: EPIC has obtained documents from the Department of Education detailing parent and student complaints about the misuse of educational records. The Department released the documents in response to an EPIC Freedom of Information Act request. The documents reveal that schools and districts have disclosed students’ personal records without consent, possibly in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The documents also reveal that the Department failed to…
Does Common Core-related curriculum want your family health info?
M.D. Kittle reports: For Marcia Alder, of West Bend, one of the more troubling aspects of the Common Core State Standards is what she sees as the nationalized benchmarks’ intrusiveness. Alder, mother of three students open enrolled in the Slinger public school system and outspoken critic of Common Core, says one of her children brought…
FTC Staff Updates COPPA FAQs on Verifiable Parental Consent Methods
Lindsey Tonsager writes: The FTC staff has posted revisions to three Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) related to obtaining verifiable parental consent under its COPPA Rule. For a comparison of the old and new FAQs, click here. Although the changes (which include a new FAQ H.16) may appear substantial, they mostly reaffirm the FTC’s longstanding position that the agency’s list…