Matthew Boyle reports: A conservative non-profit is raising privacy concerns over a Department of Education (DoED) rule change that will allow for “personally identifiable information” about students to be shared with other government departments. Personally identifiable information that could potentially be shared includes hair color, blood type, family health history and students’ grades and other…
Category: Youth & Schools
Ca: Youth DNA collection a burning issue
Kenneth Jackson writes: There’s a good chance that an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling deeming automatic DNA collection for certain youth criminals to be constitutional will go all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal court released its decision in April in the cases of three convicted youths, K.M., J.B., and D.R….
Education Privacy in Peril
Daniel Solove writes: I have been spending a lot of time examining education privacy lately, and there are some very troubling things going on in this field. At a general level, schools lack much sophistication in how they handle privacy issues. Other industry sectors that handle sensitive personal data have Chief Privacy Officers and a…
Does sale of SAT, ACT student questions violate privacy?
U.S. representatives Ed Markey and Joe Barton will ask the College Board, owner of the SAT college entrance exam, for details on how it collects and stores data from students as the government seeks to bolster teen privacy laws. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Barton, a Republican from Texas, will request the same information from…