Maria Blough reports on how the Eau Claire Area School District is addressing parent concerns over its student privacy policy. Some parents are concerned that their children may not talk to them about issues such as gender identity and sexual orientation. If students confide in school personnel, privacy laws would prohibit the school personnel from…
Category: Youth & Schools
State attorneys general ask Snap and TikTok to give parents more control over apps.
David McCabe reports: A group of attorneys general on Tuesday asked Snap and TikTok to work more closely with parental control apps and to apply more scrutiny to inappropriate content on their platforms, the latest salvo in a growing fight over child protection between governments and social media companies. Attorneys general from 43 states and territories said…
‘Really alarming’: the rise of smart cameras used to catch maskless students in US schools
Mark Keierleber reports: When students in suburban Atlanta returned to school for in-person classes amid the pandemic, they were required to mask up, like in many places across the US. Yet in this 95,000-student district, officials took mask compliance a step further than most. Through a network of security cameras, officials harnessed artificial intelligence to…
Federal Court Approves $1.1 Million TikTok Settlement Over Children’s Privacy Claims
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 25, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a $1.1 million settlement with TikTok Inc. (“TikTok”) to resolve claims that TikTok collected children’s data and sold it to third parties without parental consent. Read more at Privacy & Information Security Law Blog.