Francisco Vara-Orta reports that the Northside Independent School District student who has refused to wear an RFID chipped ID tag on religious grounds has lost her lawsuit, and the district can transfer her to another school in the district that does not use RFID-chipped tags if she continues to refuse to wear one. Andrea Hernandez…
Category: Youth & Schools
Parental Attitudes about Student Privacy Online
Dan Solove writes: A recently-released Brunswick Insight survey of parental attitudes about student privacy online is quite revealing. The survey involved more than 1000 American adults with children in grades 1-12, and it was done in August 2012. Overall, the survey revealed that parents are very concerned about their students’ online privacy, especially the tracking of their…
Mommy bloggers: A child’s right to online privacy
Sarah Kendzior has a thoughtful piece on a topic I’ve mentioned before: does a mother’s right to tell her story or blog about her life trump the privacy rights of her child? The issue recently came to the forefront again after Sarah responded critically to a blog post called “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother” that had…
Parents: Start 2013 by protecting your child’s education privacy
Sheila Kaplan is offering free information for parents and free “Opt-Out/Protect Kids” bracelets as part of her ongoing campaign to inform parents about the need to opt-out when it comes to schools disclosing students’ information. Some schools have expansive definitions of what they can disclose as “directory information” without consent under FERPA, while other schools…