Ann Dornfield reports: KUOW has learned that the Washington state education department has signed agreements to share non-public student data with media organizations including The Seattle Times and the Associated Press. Data security experts say the agreements raise serious privacy concerns for the state’s public school students. Do read more about this agreement and the concerns it raises on…
Category: Youth & Schools
NY: Speaker Silver Urges Delay Of NY Student Database
Jaired Crofut reports: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has sent a letter to New York Education Commissioner John King Jr. saying the department should hold off on transferring sensitive student information to a new statewide database. The letter, also signed by nearly 50 Assembly Democrats, says the lawmakers were swayed by testimony about potential flaws in…
Marvel, Sanrio accused of ignoring privacy rules meant to protect children
Hayley Tsukayama reports: Iron Man, Captain America and Spider-Man greet visitors to Disney’s MarvelKids.com Web site, but parents may be surprised to learn that these superheroes may also open the door to tools that track their children’s activities across the Web, according to federal complaints to be filed Wednesday. The filings with the Federal Trade…
Yale University can access student emails
From the that’s-not-very-nice-folks dept.: Matthew Lloyd-Thomas and Adrian Rodrigues report: Yale students’ email accounts are subject to search without consent or notification by the University, as outlined in a publicly available but little-publicized document. Under the University’s Information Technology Acceptable Use Policy, the University maintains the right to access not only employee accounts, but students’…