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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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….
NSW privacy exemption shares personal data with private sector
Simon Sharwood reports: The New South Wales (NSW) Information and Privacy Commission (IPC) has issued a direction to privacy officers across the state that they are to share some personal data with the private sector. The data will come from the Department of Attorney General & Justice’s files on young people who have committed an…
Parent Opposition Slims Student Data Collection
Evelyn B. Stacey reports: After months of parent protests, Colorado’s Department of Education ended its contract with controversial technology organization inBloom in November, shortly after Jefferson County, Colorado’s school board cut ties with it for the same reason by a 7-1 vote. This makes New York the sole remaining state to continue its relationship with…