One of the top privacy stories of 2013 should be the fact that parents and school districts are joining forces in some areas to protect student privacy against massive data collection and data mining. Today’s example: Citing major concerns regarding the program’s handling of student data and overall lack of accountability and diligence in protecting students’…
Category: Youth & Schools
Personal details of South Australian reception students shared, breaching privacy rules, says watchdog
Personal information about South Australia’s reception students has been sent around the country by the Education Department in breach of the state’s privacy principles, a watchdog says. The department provided the Federal Government with children’s full name, address, school, indigenous status, languages spoken and whether they were repeating a school year, despite the Privacy Committee…
Legislative-Advocacy Group’s Model Bill Tackles Privacy of Student Data
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…
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.