James Samuel reports: A relatively new report outlines how universities nationwide have signed over students’ private FERPA data to a third-party vendor that reviews their personal information to help study college students’ voting trends. The nine-page report describes how a national voting study run out of Tufts’ Institute for Democracy in Higher Education gets university administrators from…
Category: Youth & Schools
Fresno High tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it
Leqi Shong reports: Oliver Buchanan, a 10th grader at Fresno High, is using his first bathroom privilege for the day. He inputs his student ID number into an app and if the system detects fewer than 25 students campus-wide are on bathroom trips, the screen turns green and the countdown begins. He now has seven…
K12 SIX Applauds Launch of K-12 Education Cybersecurity Council
On March 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education—in coordination with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—held the kickoff meeting of the Education Facilities Subsector Government Coordinating Council (GCC), designed to facilitate formal, ongoing collaboration between all levels of government and the education sector on issues of K-12 cybersecurity risk management. Organized in response…
FTC Denies Application for New Parental Consent Mechanism Under COPPA
March 29 – The Federal Trade Commission has denied an application, without prejudice, by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Yoti, and SuperAwesome for Commission approval of a new mechanism for obtaining parental consent under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule). The applicants in 2023 requested approval for the use of “Privacy-Protective Facial Age Estimation” technology, which…