Joint Hearing: Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies. Date: June 25, 2014 “How Data Mining Threatens Student Privacy” The joint hearing is scheduled at 11:00 a.m. in room 311 Cannon House Office Building (Homeland Security Hearing Room). **View a Live Webcast of the Hearing**Please…
Category: Youth & Schools
School security, gone digital
Steve Coulter provides a nice bird’s-eye view of data security at the k12 level in his coverage of a Ridgefield, Connecticut school board meeting: Craig Tunks, the district’s director of technology, presented a student data security and privacy update to the Board of Education on May 27, which highlighted how the district uses data, how…
$10,000 Price Tag Put on Nevada Parent’s Data Request
I meant to post this last week, but hey, I’m old, I forget. Benjamin Herold reports: Nevada state education officials recently told a parent it would cost him more than $10,000 to access the data the department has collected on his four children, raising a tangled web of questions about everything from the structure of…
NY lawmakers OK bill to curb child identity theft
AP reports that lawmakers in New York state have passed a law designed to help parents prevent their children from becoming the victims of identity theft. The bill, which requires credit agencies to put a credit record freeze on the account of a minor at parent’s or guardian’s request, heads to the governor’s desk. Read more on…