Bryan Warner of The Voter Update reports that North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a student privacy bill into law: Ensuring Privacy of Student Records (S815) – A bill ensuring the privacy and security of student educational records. Passed 114-0 in the House and 49-0 in the Senate. (Primary sponsors: Sens. Barefoot, Brock and Soucek)…
Category: Youth & Schools
Academics call for guidelines on use of online learners’ data
Chris Parr reports: Guidelines to ensure the ethical use of data gathered from online learners need to be developed, to prevent the misuse of personal information, a group of academics has said. Delegates at the Asilomar Convention for Learning Research in Higher Education, which took place in California earlier this month, have produced a framework…
Congress Urged to Update Student Data Privacy Law
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…
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…