Lyn O’Shaughnessy provides some interesting statistics on how much schools are earning by providing student info to credit card issuers: Do university administrators feel guilty about encouraging their students to sign up for credit cards that provided kickbacks to their schools? […] Last year credit card companies issued more than $83 million to universities, alumni associations and…
Category: Youth & Schools
Women secretly filmed on Dalhousie campus
Dalhousie University security staff say someone is secretly filming women on the Studley Campus and posting the videos to an online sharing site. In an email sent to students Monday afternoon, Mike Burns, director of security, said women were “surreptitiously captured on video.” “The videos were taken without consent of the subjects and appear to…
Shrinking privacy in China
Two news items out of China this weekend suggest diminishing privacy rights both online and offline. Robin Hicks reports: Internet users in China will soon be required to reveal their identities before they surf the web. This, Chinese government officials have told FutureGov, will enable China’s netizens to “speak freely” in a secure environment. The Real…
Treasurer’s daughter, Marshall University settle FERPA breach lawsuit
Following up on a privacy lawsuit filed several months ago, Phil Kabler reports: Marshall University has reached a tentative settlement with a daughter of state Treasurer John Perdue, over a lawsuit contending that the school violated privacy laws by releasing confidential information regarding her coursework. Attorneys for Emily Perdue have agreed to voluntarily dismiss the…