AP reports: The Kansas House is preparing to debate legislation restricting the identifiable information collected on public school students. The bill on Wednesday’s calendar also restricts who could view the information. Read more on Hays Post.
Category: Youth & Schools
When is it okay for parents to share children’s sensitive information publicly?
Over the last 30 years, I’ve spent a lot of time grappling with the thorny question of when is it okay to share a child’s sensitive information in a public forum or setting. Two videos recently posted online that included such disclosures got me thinking about this issue again. So let me start with some…
Bill to protect South Carolina children from ID theft passes House
Robert Kittle reports: The South Carolina House gave its final approval Wednesday to a bill to protect children from identity theft by allowing their parents to put security freezes on their children’s credit. Right now, there’s no way to do that because, since children don’t have credit, they don’t have credit reports on which to…
New Guide For District Tech Leaders on Front Lines of Student Privacy Battle
Benjamin Herold and Sean Cavanagh write: District technology officials worried about protecting students’ sensitive information, complying with federal and state privacy laws, and avoiding legal challenges and parent uproar have a new step-by-step resource for drafting data-privacy policies and contracts with the private companies handling their information. “We’ve had a very rapid adoption of cloud…