Action on Rights for Children (ARCH) has produced a paper, “Biometrics in schools.” From the introduction: … From small beginnings, biometric usage in schools has increased rapidly in the last few years. In 2001, a company called Microlibrarian systems (MLS) approached the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to ask for comments on the company’s plans to incorporate biometric fingerprint…
Category: Youth & Schools
FERPA’s “directory information” inconsistent with privacy protection
A Princeton student who tried to raise awareness about how much information the university makes available about students online may have bought himself some trouble with the university. Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic reports: “Congrats on using Gmail for your Princeton email,” Dan Li ’11 wrote in the hundreds of e-mails he sent out over the last few…
NYC: ‘Spier’ education: Officials pull plug on website promoting hidden camera gadgets for principals
Rachel Monahan reports that the New York Daily News uncovered some really nasty spying in the NYC schools: School principals-turned-Inspector Gadgets had their online spy-gear store shuttered after the Daily News exposed their link to the sleuthing market. The city Education Department pulled the plug on its website portal to an I-Spy-type arsenal where principals…
Another cyberbullying case in New Jersey reminds us of how much needs to be done
Yesterday, James Queally of the Star-Ledger in New Jersey reported on a case involving cyberbullying. The cyberbullying went on for three years and any parent reading what happened to the victim would share the parent’s concerns and frustration trying to get the situation addressed. One of the interesting “factoids” in the piece was that the NJ State…