Raymond Rendleman reports: Federal officials recently found that the Gladstone School District had violated national regulations related to sharing students’ personally identifiable information. District officials acknowledged that improper disclosure did occur as a parent alleged, according to Benjamin Ferraro, an analyst with the Student Privacy Policy Office of the U.S Department of Education. Last year…
Category: Youth & Schools
Blue Valley teacher violates student’s privacy over medical mask exemption
Danedri Herbert reports: A Blue Valley Northwest teacher is under fire today after parents complained she promised to tell her Facebook followers whether a student with a medical mask exemption was utilizing the exemption the next day. “I’ll let you know if her daughter shows up with a mask on Wednesday or if she’s still…
Supreme Court won’t block Indiana University vaccine mandate as Justice Barrett rejects student plea
Robert Barnes reports: Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday rejected a plea from a group of Indiana University students to stop the university’s requirement that all students be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Barrett, who received the request because she is the Supreme Court justice tasked with emergency petitions from that region of the country, did…
Dutch education IT crisis averted as Google agrees to ‘major privacy improvements’
Tim Anderson reports: Google has agreed to “major privacy improvements” following a threat to ban the use of Google Workspace in education by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA). In May the DPA warned that eight out of ten “high data protection risks” in Google’s productivity suite, Workspace, still remained despite the company’s response. Now, after what…