Rose Bouboushian reports: Consumers may amend claims that Google and Viacom violate children’s privacy by using cookies to track their Internet use and target them for ads, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler in in Newark, N.J., presides over the multidistrict litigation against Google and Viacom, the parent company of MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount…
Category: Youth & Schools
CDC’s National Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is spying on kids & parents
Joe Cadillic excerpts reports by Government Technology and MtAiryNews: The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is using data analysis to identify children and families most at risk, and thus inform how time and money is allocated. When the DCF started this project two years ago, the goal was to see fewer dead children…
MO: Nixon fine with schools tracking students
AP reports: Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have prohibited Missouri’s public schools from tracking students electronically. The legislation rejected Wednesday sought to bar districts from using “radio frequency identification technology” to monitor or track the location of students. Nixon said it would have eroded the ability of local school officials to decide…
Student Data Tied to Common Core Off-Limits to Parents
Dr. Susan Berry writes: States that were awarded grants from President Obama’s Race to the Top (RttT) stimulus bill program agreed to implement the Common Core standards and to comply with the “Four Assurances,” one of which was the requirement of “Building data systems that measure student growth and success.” The problem? Private student data…