Drew Smith reports: Avon authorities are investigating after they received reports of several Avon High School students who may have been exchanging nude pictures through cellphones and mobile devices. Some students have been suspended and police said they are working with the school to determine what happened and if any laws were broken. Officials said…
Category: Youth & Schools
Fordham Law National Study Finds Public School Use of Cloud Computing Services Causes Data Privacy Problems
From their press release: Fordham Law School’s Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) today released a report on how school districts address privacy when they transfer student information to cloud computing service providers. The report marks the nation’s first in-depth analysis of this increasingly contentious issue. The study found that as public schools in…
EPIC Files Privacy Complaint to Protect Student Data
From the good folks at EPIC: EPIC has filed an extensive complaint with the Federal Trade Commission concerning the business practices of Scholarships.com. The company encourages students to divulge sensitive medical, sexual, and religious information to obtain financial aid information. The company claims that it uses this information to locate scholarships and financial aid. Scholarships.com, however, transfers the…
NY: School board members wary of inBloom
School board members overwhelmingly oppose the State Education Department’s plan to provide student data to a third-party vendor, according to the latest poll of New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) members. Seventy-five percent of board members surveyed said they oppose sending data for New York students to inBloom, a data storage company that has…