Andrea Vittorio reports: TikTok faces 10 lawsuits alleging it collected data on children’s faces without parental approval in the Northern District of Illinois, after a judicial panel consolidated the cases there. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said in its order Tuesday it also may add an additional nine related lawsuits to the consumer class actions…
Category: Youth & Schools
The College Board Is Sharing Student Data Once Again
Bill Fitzgerald had a concerning thread on Twitter yesterday about some research on College Board and the sharing of student data. I will not reproduce his whole thread here, but he points us to the team’s report on Consumer Reports, authored by Thomas Germain. The bullet points alone are enough to make you realize that…
College recruitment database makes 1 million students’ GPAs, SAT scores, IDs, and other personal data publicly available
Bernard Meyer reports: We recently discovered an unsecured Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) bucket, or database, containing nearly 1 million records of sensitive high school student academic information. Included in this unsecured bucket are GPA scores, ACT, SAT, and PSAT scores, unofficial transcripts, student IDs, and students’ and parents’ names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers…
Challenges to Student Data Privacy: The Post-COVID Era of Distance Learning Through Technology
Joe Cadillic sends along this announcement of a virtual event you may want to attend: Albany Law School Online Graduate Programs presents: Challenges to Student Data Privacy: The Post-COVID Era of Distance Learning Through Technology Thursday, July 23, 2020 1 – 2:30 p.m. Zoom (Link to be sent in confirmation email) More information on the panel of…