Damon Root reports: In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), the U.S. Supreme Court forbade public school officials from punishing students for exercising their First Amendment rights on school grounds unless the speech at issue “would materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline and in the operation of the school.” In…
Category: Youth & Schools
TikTok Reviews Italian Data Watchdog’s Order to Block Accounts
Sharon Cho reports: TikTok, ByteDance Ltd.’s social media app, said the company is reviewing the Italian data-protection authority’s orders to block unverified accounts of younger users. The privacy watchdog told TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of users in the country whose age it couldn’t verify at least until Feb. 15, according to a statement by the…
Irish DPC publishes draft Fundamentals for a Child-Oriented Approach to Data Processing
Dan Cooper, Sam Jungyun Choi, Shona O’Donovan, and Stacy Young of Covington and Burling write: On December 18, 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) published its draft Fundamentals for a Child-Oriented Approach to Data Processing (the “Fundamentals”). The Fundamentals introduce child-specific data protection principles and measures, which are designed to protect children against data processing risks…
Future of Privacy Forum Releases New Student Privacy Communications Toolkit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) today released a comprehensive new student privacy resource, Student Privacy Communications Toolkit: For Schools & Districts. Designed to help school and district leaders communicate about student privacy, particularly with the accelerated adoption of educational technology platforms in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Student Privacy Toolkit includes both high-level best…