If you are concerned about student privacy and are not already subscribed to the Future of Privacy Forum’s student privacy newsletter, you should subscribe to this great, free resource immediately. Here’s just the first few items from their most recent newsletter: Today, FPF and the National Education Association released Rethinking Video Mandates in Online Classrooms: Privacy…
Category: Youth & Schools
Mill River officials: Survey mistakenly sent to students
Jim Sabataso reports: School officials at Mill River Union High School are apologizing for an email that was inadvertently sent to students containing a link to a third-party survey. At the regular meeting of the Mill River Unified Union School District School Board Wednesday evening, Superintendent David Younce explained that an email containing a survey…
New Mexico AG Files Notice of Appeal in Suit Against Google Regarding Alleged Violations of COPPA
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On November 27, 2020, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in the lawsuit it brought against Google on February 20, 2020, regarding alleged violations of the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) in connection with G-Suite for…
Vendor of School-Based Face Surveillance Systems Lied About Bias, Accuracy
From the good folks at EPIC.org: Documents obtained by Motherboard show that a key vendor of school-based facial recognition tools lied to school officials about the accuracy rate and racial bias of its surveillance product. The records reveal that SN Technologies’ AEGIS system misidentifies black students at alarmingly high rates and mistakes objects like broom handles for guns. Despite…