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…
Category: Youth & Schools
LI parents fight student cloud database, cite privacy concerns
John Hildebrand reports: Angry parents worried about their children’s privacy are fighting New York State’s planned turnover of 2.3 million public school students’ names and records to a private, high-tech corporation that will store and manage the records within a computerized “cloud” service. The release of data to inBloom Inc., a nonprofit based in Atlanta,…
Mother Sues Twitter for Mean People’s Names
Lorraine Bailey reports: A mother sued Twitter for the identities of people who impersonated her daughter on the social media site, tweeting in her name “my passion is being fat,” “free hand and blowjobs call me,” and posting her phone number and picture online. The mother sued Twitter on behalf of her minor daughter, in…
Parents seek statewide privacy act on student records
Robert Stewart reports from Louisiana: A local education advocate said Thursday she and other parents have asked state lawmakers to push for an education information privacy act similar to the federal law that protects student education records. Beth Meyers, a former teacher and Denham Springs resident, also asked the Livingston Parish School Board what type…