Valerie Strauss writes about EPIC’s lawsuit against the U.S. Education Department over changes to FERPA: The U.S. Education Department is being sued by a nonprofit organization for promoting regulations that are alleged to undercut student privacy and parental consent. The rules allow third parties, including private companies and foundations promoting school reform, to get access…
Category: Youth & Schools
OU denied requests for parking ticket records, but are they protected by privacy laws?
I suppose I should no longer be shocked when I read a news story about a controversy involving FERPA (the federal privacy law protecting students’ education records) in Oklahoma. After all, this was the state where sensitive and personal student information was made public if students appealed a state mandate. But now we have the…
Student Privacy Should Not Be for Sale
Cameron Evans of Microsoft writes: How would you react if you learned that an outside agency came to your child’s school and, without your knowledge or consent, collected confidential data about your child and then used the data they gathered to make money for themselves? Would you be upset? As a parent, I believe the…
Proposed California Bill Would Require Sites To Hand Over Private Info On Kids To Their Parents
Mike Masnick writes: California Assemblywoman Nora Campos proposed a bill a few weeks ago, AB 319, that would expand things so much that any sites that collect any information about anyone under the age of 18 would be required under law to reveal that personal information to parents if requested. Now, think about that for a second. Since this is for…