In late December, 2013 the Department of Defense released a database on the military’s controversial Student Testing Program in 11,700 high schools across the country. An examination of the complex and contradictory dataset raises serious issues regarding student privacy and the integrity of the Student Testing Program in America’s schools. The data was released after…
Category: Youth & Schools
NY: Student data portal raises privacy concerns
It’s interesting to see the growing coverage of the student data portal/inBloom controversy in New York. Here’s a news story from Utica: Expected to launch this winter, the EngageNY Portal will offer a database of education information with everything from test scores to student demographics such as wealth and race. Though it sounds like a…
UK: Privacy group reveals more than one million pupils are fingerprinted
Sam Shead reports: More than one million children in England have been fingerprinted by their schools – thousands without their parent’s consent, a report out today has revealed. The report, compiled by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, revealed that 866,000 children had their fingerprints taken in the academic year 2012-13. Read more on TechWorld.
Feds Call On Financial Institutions To Disclose Campus Financial Agreements
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is calling on financial institutions to publicly disclose agreements with colleges and universities to market debit, prepaid, and other products to students. Currently, institutions only make these disclosures about college credit cards. The CFPB also released its annual report on college credit card agreements, which showed a decline of…