Tanya Roscorla reports: Experts shared conflicting advice at a congressional hearing this week on how to ensure student data privacy in the cloud, with much of the conflict revolving around whether federal legislation does enough to protect students. Here’s the main challenge with student data: School districts are contracting with third-party cloud service providers that…
Category: Youth & Schools
Ca: Disclosure of student personal information to BCTF representatives
Notice that they require encryption for student information on portable storage media. That’s already more than what is required here in the U.S.: June 24, 2014 The following letter was sent to the BC School Superintendents Association, the BC School Trustees Association and the BC Teachers Federation Disclosure of student personal information to BCTF representatives––OIPC…
Loebsack involved in debate over privacy of student records
O. Kay Henderson reports: Congressman Dave Loebsack says as more schools and parents use on-line resources to educate kids, it may be time to expand a federal law governing the privacy of student records. “In those direct interactions between students and software companies, data are being collected to build user profiles, individualized learning experience and…
Student Data Could Be Sold To Coke, Expert Warns On Capitol Hill
The Daily Caller reports: Students could have advertisements directed at them by Coca-Cola due to holes in existing privacy laws, one expert testified Wednesday during a House hearing on the data security of American schoolchildren. Joel Reidenberg, who directs the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School, told joint hearing of two…