From Privacy International: Students shouldn’t have to trade their right to privacy in order to access their right to an education. The use of Education Technology (EdTech) has been expanding rapidly all over the world, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. That expansion frequently hasn’t been accompanied by appropriate safeguards or responsible practices, from data protection…
Category: Youth & Schools
Scammers Are Extorting Parents With Their Dead Children’s Nude Images, FBI Says
Thomas Brewster reports: Sextortion scammers have become increasingly ruthless, targeting families of teenage victims who took their own lives after sending nude images to highly organized cybercriminal gangs, the FBI has warned. The gangs have demanded that parents or siblings pay to ensure that the sexualized photos of their deceased relatives are not publicly released,…
Study: Schools’ social media posts may be compromising student privacy
by American Educational Research Association U.S. schools and school districts have shared an estimated 4.9 million posts that include identifiable images of students on public Facebook pages, unintentionally putting student privacy at risk, according to a new study. Around 726,000 of these posts are thought to identify one or more students by their first and…
How to Communicate Student Data Privacy Protections to Families More Effectively
Michael Hickey writes: Parents and guardians of K–12 students are rather aware and concerned about student data privacy, but a majority are lacking specific information from their schools. A 2020 Center for Democracy and Technology report shows that without additional details about threats, 62 percent of parents showed some level of concern over student data privacy. However,…