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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
EPIC Calls Proposed Student Privacy Exemptions “Unlawful”
From EPIC.org: EPIC submitted a detailed statement to the Department of Education in response to a request for public comment on a proposal to expand exemptions in a law that protects the privacy of student information. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act limits the release of students’ educational records. However, the Department of Education has proposed…
Teacher who video-recorded disruptive student suing over job loss
Susan Snyder reports: Teacher Harry Drake became so frustrated with disruptive behavior in his Philadelphia public school classroom that he turned a video camera on the students. A male student lunged at Drake and grabbed the camera, and a struggle ensued. But it wasn’t the student who got in trouble. […] While it has…