The Commission analysed the policies of 22 social networking sites in a study aimed at finding out how well-protected under-18s were when using them as part of a campaign to urge young people to protect their information online. It said that just 40% of the sites they examined had default settings which hid the personal…
Category: Youth & Schools
Facebook prank a lesson in privacy
Valerie Fortney writes: … Just last week, Canada’s privacy commissioner asked Facebook to change a number of policies and practices to comply with the country’s private-sector privacy law, and explain better how it handles personal information with third-party developers that create applications, such as games and quizzes. Such thoughts were on the mind of a…
GA: University employee charged with felony
Jacob Demmitt reports: A University [of Georgia] employee with access to sensitive student information was arrested and charged with one count of felony theft by extortion Monday evening, and police said they expect their investigation to lead them to more student victims. Dorin Dehelean, an Internet technology security analyst associate for Enterprise Information Technology Services,…
Clash Over Student Privacy
Inside Higher Ed reports: The U.S. Education Department has fired the top federal official charged with protecting student privacy, in what the dismissed official says was a conflict with the agency’s political leaders over their zeal to encourage the collection of data about students’ academic performance. Paul Gammill was physically escorted out of the department’s…