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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
Viacom, Google Privacy Case Is on the Way Out
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…
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…