Dominic Patten reports: Bob Iger today told a Massachusetts congressman that his privacy issue concerns about new technology being introduced at Disney theme parks are bunk. “We are offended by the ludicrous and utterly ill-informed assertion in your letter dated January 24, 2013, that we would in any way haphazardly or recklessly introduce a program…
Category: Youth & Schools
Equality and Human Rights Commission helps student wrongly branded a criminal win privacy case
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has intervened in a landmark legal case which has determined that the way the police have dealt with confidential information relating to minor offences is in breach of human rights laws protecting privacy. The ruling means that children in particular will be protected against a minor misdemeanour potentially…
Search of student’s phone outrages dad
Mark McGuire reports: The Fourth Amendment question here is not about the seizure, but the search that came afterward. A Berne parent grew outraged after a school principal confiscated his son’s phone earlier this week after being caught texting in class. It’s not the confiscation of the 14-year-old’s iPhone 5 that caused the ire, but rather…
A Few Things about E-FERPA
Steven J. McDonald is General Counsel at Rhode Island School of Design and previously served as Associate Legal Counsel at The Ohio State University. On Data Privacy Day, he wrote a post on EDUCAUSE on FERPA that unintentionally demonstrates how imprecise standards are for data security and protection of student records. For example, he writes:…