Douglas Gerhardt, Tracie Lopardi, and Alan Winchester of Harris Beach PLLC write: School districts must consider the sanctity and privacy of data they maintain, as a recent decision underscores from the New York State Education Department’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer. This alert explains the recent decision, a prior guidance opinion and considerations for…
Category: Youth & Schools
Privacy Family Safety App Touting Digital Security Leaves Its Own Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk
Family Safety App Touting Digital Security Leaves Its Own Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk Former employees said Life360 executives knew about security gaps By: Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan The family safety app Life360 doesn’t have some standard guardrails to prevent a hacker from taking over an account and accessing sensitive information, The Markup has…
California’s strict child-data bill would limit Big Tech data collection
Madhumita Murgia and Hannah Murphy report: California lawmakers plan to introduce a new bill to protect children’s data online this Thursday, mirroring the UK’s recently introduced children’s code, as part of growing momentum globally for stricter regulation on Big Tech. The California age-appropriate design-code bill will require many of the world’s biggest tech platforms headquartered…
Teacher Spying Is Instilling Surveillance Culture Into Students
Liam Day reports: For the teachers, it began in October at the California Teachers Association’s 2021 LGBTQ+ Issues Conference. Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki explained how they identified potential new members of UBU, the school’s club of LGBTQ supporters. “When we were doing our virtual learning—we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when…