Palo Alto Online reports on a lawsuit stemming from allegations that a teacher improperly disclosed a student’s confidential health information to parents of a second student, resulting in the district attempting to place the first student in another district for fear of health concerns for the second student. As a result of the teacher’s actions,…
Category: Youth & Schools
Group Presses for Safeguards on the Personal Data of Schoolchildren
Natasha Singer reports: A leading children’s advocacy group is challenging the educational technology software industry, an estimated $8 billion market, to develop national safeguards for the personal data collected about students from kindergarten through high school. In a letter sent last week to 16 educational technology vendors — including Google Apps for Education, Samsung School,…
Judge tosses part of lawsuit over Facebook bikini photo
A painful lesson on “no reasonable expectation of privacy,” but will this serve as a cautionary tale for our youth, as district personnel may have intended? I doubt it. A judge tossed out parts of a lawsuit filed against the Fayette County School District after an administrator displayed a student’s bikini picture during a seminar…
Alabama state education board passes policy that threatens student privacy
WWNT Radio reports that Alabama’s state board of education has “adopted a policy that supposedly protects student privacy while it allows the collection, data-mining and sharing of private, non-academic information on students without parental permission.” Why would they do this? Follow the money and federal strings: “ALDOE received one-half billion dollars from the 2009 Stimulus Bill in…