Richard Ilgenfritz reports: Lower Merion school officials are fighting back against the latest webcam suit that was filed this week by a former Harriton student. Monday, Joshua Levin, a 2009 graduate of Harriton High School, filed a new lawsuit in connection with Lower Merion use of a technology that allowed certain school officials to activate…
Category: Youth & Schools
Another family sues Lower Merion School District over “webcamgate”
If you thought the soap opera involving Lower Merion School District’s “webcamgate” was over, guess again. Reuben Kramer reports that another lawsuit has been filed by another student whose images were captured when the webcam on his district-provided laptop was remotely activated: Plaintiff Joshua Levin’s suit describes an ominous night when he and his family discovered…
Comments of the World Privacy Forum Regarding the U.S. Department of Education Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
… In general, we find the Department’s proposed changes to FERPA troubling on a number ofgrounds. Most significantly, we believe that the Department does not have the legal authority tomake all of the changes to the privacy requirements in FERPA that it proposes. We also havestrong concerns that the increased sharing of student information that the…
Conservative group accuses Education Dept of invading students’ privacy with new FERPA rules
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…