Natalie Apostolou reports: Australian students may be spared potentially invasive digital data access from Google following the Privacy Commission’s decision to back the EU’s reforms regarding Google’s new privacy policy. European data protection agencies have given Google a four month deadline to fix its new privacy policy which the agencies claim do not comply with…
Category: Youth & Schools
Outsourcing Privacy in Higher Education
Steve Kolowich reports: After several years of negotiating, a dozen colleges have reached an agreement with Microsoft that could inspire more institutions to outsource their internal communications and data storage systems to the company and its far-flung servers — even when those systems hold sensitive student and research data. Since 2010 Microsoft had been in talks…
NYC: Parent Activists Concerned About Student Database
Alec Hamilton reports: A data-sharing agreement inked between the state Department of Education and a private nonprofit last week may led to confidential student information being used for commercial purposes, parents activists claim. Critics said on Sunday they had privacy concerns about information sent to the student database known as the Shared Learning Collective —…
Student campaign set on exposing secrecy flaws
Jill Riepenhoff reports: To shed light on public records being held secret by many U.S. colleges, the Student Press Law Center is urging students everywhere to flood their schools with requests to see their own education records. The goal of the campaign is to show what the center’s director says is hypocrisy by colleges in…