Google To EFF On Student Privacy: “Our Tools Comply With Both The Law And Our...
Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Google Apps for Education, said in a post:: “On December 1st, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published a complaint regarding Google Apps for Education (GAFE)...
View ArticleState Student Privacy Laws: A Game-Changer for Service Providers
Student data privacy legislation has been on a tear recently. At the state level, according to the Data Quality Campaign, this year 47 states have introduced 186 bills addressing student data privacy,...
View ArticleGoogle, a ‘school official?’ This regulatory quirk can leave parents in the...
Google is a major player in U.S. education. In fact, in many public schools around the country, it’s technically a “school official.” And that designation means parents may not get a chance to opt out...
View ArticleReport From the Student Privacy Frontlines: 2015 in Review
This year the fight to protect student privacy hit a boiling point with our Spying on Students campaign, an effort to help students, parents, teachers, and school administrators learn more about the...
View ArticleRewriting the Social Contract to Safeguard Student Data Privacy
The IT department is often seen as the obstacle to progress. Teachers prefer to start using tools they find on the Internet without first “running it by IT,” and educational technology companies often...
View ArticleNew student database slammed by privacy experts
The U.S. Education Department’s new planned system of records that will collect detailed data on thousands of students — and transfer records to private contractors — is being slammed by experts who...
View ArticleAnalytics in K-12 Schools: Big Data, or Big Brother?
The idea is that more and better information on students, collected unobtrusively as they go about regular learning activities in the classroom, might help make education more personalized, powerful,...
View ArticlePassing the Privacy Test as Student Data Laws Take Effect
On January 1, 2016, “ SOPIPA”—the recently passed California student data privacy law that defines how edtech companies can use student data became effective. About 25 other states have passed similar...
View ArticleIn Letter To Google CEO, Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Student Data...
Sen. Franken touched on these reports and expressed concerns that the company was violating the privacy of students in schools across the country. …I understand that there may be a discrepancy in how...
View ArticleNew Data Principles Help to Guard Student Privacy
The best example of the evolving context around the privacy of student data is a recently released set of student privacy principles. Last fall, the Consortium for School Networking and the Data...
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