Benjamin Herold writes: Seeking to help schools and districts better protect students’ privacy, the U.S. Department of Education released new guidance Tuesday on the proper use, storage, and security of the massive amounts of data being generated by new, online educational resources. The guidelines, produced by the department’s privacy technical assistance center, highlight the rapidly evolving, often-murky…
Category: Youth & Schools
Texas School District Settles With Former Student Outed by Coaches
Trudy Ring reports that a lawsuit previously covered on this blog has settled: A Texas school district has agreed to pay $77,500 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a lesbian former student who said her high school softball coaches outed her to her mother. Officials with the Kilgore Independent School District agreed Friday to pay…
Today in D.C.: Washington Summit on Protecting Student Data
From the press release: Common Sense Media, in partnership with The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, will convene a half-day School Privacy Zone summit on Monday, February 24, 2014, to discuss effective ways to safeguard student privacy in schools that use education technology for teaching and learning. The summit will take place at the Pew Conference…
Student Data Privacy: No Free Hall Pass to Use Student Data
Karl Broder and John Hutchins of Troutman Sanders LLP give some background on FERPA and PPRA, and then reinforce some points made by Joel Reidenberg and his colleagues at Fordham CLIP: For example, a recent study by the Center of Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School regarding the growing trend in school districts’ reliance on cloud…