From the good folks at EPIC: In a letter to the Senate and House Committees on Education, EPIC has asked Congress to restore privacy protections for student data. EPIC’s letter follows a court opinion concerning recentchanges to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. EPIC has warned that the changes in the student privacy law allow the release of student…
Category: Youth & Schools
Deciding Who Sees Students’ Data
Natasha Singer reports on concerns about InBloom and student privacy. Here’s a snippet: She did not imagine that five months later, she would be sitting in a special school board meeting in the district’s headquarters, listening as a series of parents, school board members and privacy lawyers assailed the plan to outsource student data storage…
Judge Tosses Challenge to FERPA Rules on Student ID Numbers
Mark Walsh reports that EPIC’s lawsuit against the U.S. Education Department has been dismissed for lack of standing: A federal judge has a thrown out a lawsuit challenging 2011 regulations for the main federal education privacy law that added student identification numbers to the “directory” of information that may be disclosed by schools and colleges….
Students’ privacy denied
Nat Hentoff has an OpEd on student privacy that will sound familiar to regular readers of this blog. In it, he describes the case of Andrea Hernandez, a student in Texas who refused to wear an RFID tag, and the strip search of J.C. Cox, a 10 year-old boy, to search for a missing $20…