Adam Tanner reports: It’s the time of year when high school seniors declare their life ambitions in college applications. Many also share intimate details about themselves, including their sexual orientation, on Internet sites hoping to win scholarships. Sometimes the names of these students and their lifestyle details are sold by direct marketers. Here’s how such…
Category: Youth & Schools
Keeping Teens ‘Private’ on Facebook Won’t Protect Them
Danah Boyd supports Facebook’s policy change that allows teens to post more widely/publicly. She writes, in part: One of the most crucial aspects of coming of age is learning how to navigate public life. The teenage years are precisely when people transition from being a child to being an adult. There is no magic serum…
Senator Markey asks DOE: What Is Impact on Privacy When Student Data Shared with Private Companies?
Issuing one press release on Walgreens and medical privacy yesterday, today Senator Markey turned to the privacy of student data: With the business of storing and sifting through the records of grade school students growing as fast as young students are, today Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Department of Education…
Berkman Center Among Inaugural Participants In Privacy Program for Middle School Students
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to be among the inaugural participating institutions in an innovative privacy program launched this week by Fordham Law School’s Center for Law and Information Policy (“CLIP”). The project involves the release by CLIP of a curriculum for privacy education geared toward middle-school students. The Berkman Center…