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….
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
NJ: Monmouth legislator pushes student privacy bill as Common Core moves forward
Christopher Robbins reports: With large-scale education reforms underway, a Monmouth County Assemblyman looks for ways to protect grade-school students’ personal information. Assemblyman David Rible (R-Monmouth, Ocean) said in a Thursday press release that he has written legislation that would limit the disclosure of student data collected by education officials. Read more on NJ.com. The bill…