Mary Sell reports from Montgomery, Alabama: The state board of education plans to vote next month on a broad student-data privacy policy that it said will become more specific in the next year. “We want to dispel the myth that we let personally identifiable information go to the U.S. Department of Education,” state Superintendent Tommy…
Category: Youth & Schools
Schools’ Use of Cloud Services Puts Student Privacy at Risk
Loek Essers reports: Schools that compel students to use commercial cloud services for email and documents are putting privacy at risk, says a campaign group calling for strict controls on the use of such services in education. A core problem is that cloud providers force schools to accept policies that authorize user profiling and online…
Woohoo! Gov. Jerry Brown signs online child privacy bill into law
Governor Jerry Brown has signed SB-568 into law. The bill has sometimes been referred to as the online child privacy “eraser” bill because it requires web site operators to allow minors to remove information. There are exemptions, but here’s a portion of the text: 22581. (a) An operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application,…
Regret that embarrassing social media post? California bill would make ‘eraser’ the law
Somini Sengupta of the NYT reports: Kids. The reckless rants and pictures they post online can often get them in trouble, by compromising their chances of getting into a good college or even landing them in jail. What to do about such lapses vexes parents, school officials, the Internet companies that host their words and…