Ainsley Harris reports: A few weeks ago, New York City’s 75,000 teachers scrambled to learn how to use videoconferencing services like Zoom as novel coronavirus cases began to rise and schools prepared to close their doors and institute remote learning. Now, the city’s teachers will have to scramble once more, after Department of Education Chancellor…
Category: Youth & Schools
Judge clears way for New Mexico suit over kid privacy claims
Susan Montoya Bryan reports: A U.S. district judge has rejected an effort to derail New Mexico’s lawsuit against Twitter, Google and other companies that develop and market mobile gaming apps for children. The judge concluded in a ruling Tuesday that the court has jurisdiction over the case, clearing the way for it to proceed. Read more…
YouTube Hit With New Children’s Privacy Lawsuit
Wendy Davis reports: A Massachusetts mother of two young children is suing Google for allegedly tracking her children’s YouTube viewing habits for ad purposes. Google “engaged in unfair acts … by collecting personal information, such as persistent identifiers, from viewers it knew were children under the age of thirteen, without providing notice to or obtaining…
Student privacy laws still apply if coronavirus just closed your school
Kate Cox reports: Hundreds of colleges and universities are suddenly shutting their doors and making a rapid switch to distance learning in an effort to slow the spread of novel coronavirus disease. Likewise, hundreds of K-12 districts nationwide have either already followed suit or are likely to in the coming days. Online education comes with a whole host of…