Cullen Browder reports: Big brother invasion of privacy or pro-active policing? That’s the question after a new report revealed seven North Carolina universities use or have used powerful social media-monitoring programs to keep an eye on everything from campus protests to student well-being to drugs. […] A new report from the Dallas Morning News, as…
Category: Youth & Schools
Newsom signs children’s online safety bill into California law
Rebecca Klar reports: Tech companies will have to put extra safety features and data privacy measures in place for California children on their platforms based on a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). The law establishes the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act, which will put limits on the type of…
Lakeville Schools: Release of student information to candidate was policy, not a mistake
Babs Santos reports: Some parents in the Lakeville Area School District are upset over what they’re calling a breach of trust. But the district says it was only following school policy when it released the personal information of students to a political candidate who requested it. Read more at Fox9. Once again, parents seem shocked…
Privacy and Paternalism: The Ethics of Student Data Collection
In February 2021, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing launched a specially commissioned series that aims to address the opportunities and challenges of the computing age. The MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) series features peer-reviewed, freely available cases by topic-area experts that introduce readers to a range of questions about…