Natasha Singer reports: A coalition of nearly 20 children’s advocacy, health and public interest groups plans to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, asserting that some online marketing to children by McDonald’s and four other well-known companies violates a federal law protecting children’s privacy. The law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, requires Web…
Category: Youth & Schools
California passes legislation to protect college students’ social media privacy
Sam Laird reports: California’s Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation to bar colleges and universities from requiring students to provide administrators with access to theirsocial media usernames and passwords. Governor Jerry Brown now must sign or veto the bill by Sept. 30. California is not the first state to pass legislation protecting social media privacy for…
Colleges need schooling on privacy law
Lisa Black reports: At college registration this summer, the room went silent when a dad asked the department dean a question that lurked in the back of all our minds: What if our kid doesn’t adjust well? How will we know, short of acting like the dreaded hovering helicopter parent, if our teen is struggling…
Different policies regulate college student contact data
Allison Prang reports: If you’re a student at a Kansas college or university, you don’t need to worry about your school giving your contact information to companies that want to sell you their products or services. It’s illegal. But if you’re a student at a college or university in Missouri, you just might need to…