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…
Category: Youth & Schools
EPIC Urges Congress to Protect Student Privacy
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…
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….