USED has replied to a letter sent by Senator Markey concerning the privacy of student information. You can read their response here (pdf). I’m still working my way through it, but it’s obvious that a lot of their response is that they have issued “guidance.” But “guidance” does not have the force of regulation and…
Category: Youth & Schools
Respecting Student Privacy in the Cloud: The Need for an Industry Commitment
Margo Day, Vice-President, U.S. Education at Microsoft, writes: We have been working diligently with our customers in the K12 community to help them understand and meet data privacy obligations as schools increasingly move to innovative cloud-based services. A recently published study by the Fordham Center for Law and Information Policy makes it clear that there is still…
OR: Hillsboro School District to tweak search and seizure policy after Brown Middle School incident
Luke Hammill reports: It’s been almost two months since controversy erupted at Hillsboro’s R.A. Brown Middle School over staff reviewing and deleting video on students’ cell phones. In its first work session since the holiday break, the Hillsboro School Board reacted Tuesday evening by examining its search and seizure policies. […] Hungerford said the relevant court cases have…
Court rules that child anonymity under 1933 act does not apply to Facebook
PA Media Lawyer writes: A stalker who posted the name of his 15-year-old victim on a newspaper’s Facebook page escaped a conviction for breaching an anonymity order intended to protect her from publicity because the law only covers reports of court cases in newspapers and radio and television broadcasts. Read more on Press Gazette.