Alec Torres reports: Beginning Saturday, March 1, students and staff at Tennessee State University will be required to present identification badges at any time that can also track their movements in and out of buildings, according to a local-news report. After a spate of break-ins and vandalism, officials at the university instituted the new ID requirement as a…
Category: Youth & Schools
InBloom testifies on student data security for portal
Ashley Hupfl reports: The company tapped to create the controversial student-data portal in New York testified Friday that the information would be secure, addressing concerns raised by teachers, parents and lawmakers. InBloom Inc., based in Atlanta, is the nonprofit third-party vendor hired by the state Department of Education to create the EngageNY portal. The portal…
Security of student information questioned under new Nevada data system, while Kansas bill advances
Trevon Milliard reports: Every single child in Nevada public schools will soon be assigned an identification number and tracked in detail from preschool through high school to college under the combined efforts of a trio of state departments creating a super-data system. The system will be completed by July 2015 and will track individual test…
FTC Concludes Review of iVeriFly’s Proposed COPPA Verifiable Parental Consent Method
Following a public comment period and review of iVeriFly’s proposed Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule verifiable parental consent method application, the Federal Trade Commission determined it was unnecessary to approve the company’s specific method. In a letter to iVeriFly, the FTC stated that the company’s proposed method is a variation on existing methods already recognized in…