Jacqueline Howard reports: As the return to school approaches, some states are prohibiting public schools from requiring Covid-19 vaccinations or proof of vaccination for students ranging from pre-K to university. A CNN analysis has found that at least seven states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Montana, Oklahoma and Utah — have enacted legislation this year…
Category: Youth & Schools
MD: Montgomery County Public School parents help lead push for better federal student privacy protections
Caitlynn Peetz reports: Some Montgomery County parents are leading a push for more stringent privacy protections for students after discovering what they call “massive failures.” On Friday morning, 14 parents from nine states filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education, raising concerns about the personal information gathered about students on online platforms, stored for…
This Manual for a Popular Facial Recognition Tool Shows Just How Much the Software Tracks People
Alfred Ng reports: In 2019, the Santa Fe Independent School District in Texas ran a weeklong pilot program with the facial recognition firm AnyVision in its school hallways. With more than 5,000 student photos uploaded for the test run, AnyVision called the results “impressive” and expressed excitement at the results to school administrators. “Overall, we…
Game Over: Chinese Company Deploys Facial Recognition to Limit Teenagers
Tiffany May and Amy Chang Chien For almost every video game restriction, children and teenagers will find a way around it. But the room to maneuver is shrinking in China, where underage players are required to log on using their real names and identification numbers as part of countrywide regulations aimed at limiting screen time…