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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
South Korean regulator fines TikTok over mishandling child data
Cho Mu-Hyun reports: Video sharing platform TikTok has been fined by a South Korea regulator for mishandling child data. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country’s telecommunications watchdog, said it has fined the company 186 million won — around $155,000 — for failing to protect users’ private data. Read more on ZDNet.
Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation survey an ‘egregious’ privacy breach: commissioner
Ryan Kessler reports: A survey sent to 900 Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) members allowed teachers to breach the privacy of potentially thousands of students, according to the province’s privacy commissioner. […] The survey asked teachers to score students on a scale of zero to four in 16 areas, which included topics like attendance, behaviour, parent…