Emily Mullin reports: If you were born in the United States within the last 50 or so years, chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. By the 1970s, states had established newborn screening programs, in which a nurse takes a few…
Category: Youth & Schools
Illuminate Ed Pulled from ‘Student Privacy Pledge’ After Massive Data Breach
Mark Keierleber writes: Embattled education technology vendor Illuminate Education has become the first-ever company to get booted from the Student Privacy Pledge, an unprecedented move that follows a massive data breach affecting millions of students and allegations the company misrepresented its security safeguards. The Future of Privacy Forum, which created the self-regulatory effort nearly a…
Victory! Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections for Student’s Off-Campus Social Media Post
Yes, this is a protected speech/First Amendment issue, but I have always considered attempts to regulate student activity when youth are not at school an over-reach and attempted abridgment of a child’s rights unless the off-campus speech or activity was a threat to do something on school premises. And yes, I realize the courts have…
Marion County Schools to partner with Rank One Computing for new surveillance program
(Well, their headline said “for new safety program” but I fixed that for them) Last week, Madeline Edwards reported: Marion County Board of Education listened to a presentation about a facial recognition-based program that would serve as an extra safety measure within its schools. Superintendent of Marion County Schools, Dr. Donna Hage, said that she…