Benjamin Herold writes: An influential legislative-advocacy group’s promotion of a model bill meant to protect the privacy of student data sends a strong signal that the hot-button issue will be debated in statehouses around the country in lawmakers’ 2014 sessions. The template being provided to state lawmakers by the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council , known as ALEC, would…
Category: Youth & Schools
OR: Student’s arrest sparks privacy debate
Nancy Townsley report: Last Friday’s arrest of a Brown Middle School eighth-grader sparked a right-to-privacy furor after cell phones belonging to students who recorded the teenager’s outburst were confiscated by district staff. Read more on Hillsboro Tribune.
NY: Rhinebeck school officials question ability of state to protect student privacy
Parents and school district officials in New York are no longer buying the “Trust us, it’s all good” kool-aid that the state education department has been handing out. William Kemble reports: School district officials are unclear about how much information about students will be available through vendors hired by the state to organize data under…
NY Schools Plan Called Threat to Privacy
Marlene Kennedy of Courthouse News covers the lawsuit seeking to block New York from transferring student information to inBloom: New York’s plan to turn over massive amounts of student data to a private company for online storage violates privacy laws and could expose the information to hacking, a dozen parents and guardians claim in court….