Antonio Olivo reports: The University of Illinois on Wednesday filed its opening brief in an appeal to a federal court ruling that a privacy law governing financial aid does not bar the school from releasing information about hundreds of well-connected college applicants. In an ongoing legal dispute that stems from the Tribune’s 2009 “Clout Goes…
Category: Youth & Schools
MB: Schools ban posting of student photos online
Nick Martin reports: Manitoba’s largest school division is trying to put the social-media genie back in the bottle just in time for graduation. The Winnipeg School Division has adopted stringent privacy policies -increasing up its already rigid standards -in an effort to keep photo and video of its students off the Internet. Anyone recording a…
MT: ACLU questions use of drug dogs at Glasgow High
Kristen Cates reports: The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana is looking into the possibility that school authorities in Glasgow violated students’ privacy rights this spring during searches of vehicles. The ACLU received information that at least 15 students’ cars at Glasgow High School were searched after being sniffed by a drug-detecting dog, and two…
Cn: Breach of privacy as students’ details for sale online
Cao Yin and Zheng Xin report: Private information about elementary and secondary school students and their families is for sale online, which legal experts say constitutes an invasion of privacy. On the list, information about the capital’s 70,000 students who sat the recent college entrance examination sells for more than 1,000 yuan ($155). Information on…