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JANUARY 9, 2023
Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage.
Edsurge
APRIL 24, 2018
Between the creation of a social rating system and street cameras with facial recognition capabilities, technology reports coming out of China have raised serious concerns for privacy advocates. We don’t have a straight answer about what we can and cannot do and to be honest I don’t think Facebook has one as well.
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DECEMBER 12, 2018
That white noise you heard around student data privacy in 2018 is about to be replaced with thunder. Relative to the flurry of legislative activity seen in prior years, it was a somewhat measured year for student data privacy. This year, it seemed that everyone was catching their breath.
Doug Levin
APRIL 27, 2017
A day late perhaps, but here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. It is important that we address the need for changes to privacy/security policy and practice based on rigorous, replicable analysis and methods.
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JUNE 13, 2017
Chad Marlow, ACLU Counsel According to the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a Washington, D.C.-based based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. But what happens in these legislative halls are rarely visible to teachers, students and parents.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 24, 2018
At this time of the year, some businesses are busy filing expenses and reports. When teachers rely on tools from Google and Facebook just to keep up with students, it’s a “ race to the bottom ,” says Tristan Harris, who heads the Center for Humane Technology. What’s more popular than Gmail, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook?
Edsurge
MARCH 8, 2017
EdSurgents captured these tidbits in our reporter notebooks—take a look below. But making assumptions about a student’s potential based on data alone comes with its own set of risks, explains Manuela Ekowo, a policy analyst with New America. KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS about the news, reports Common Sense Media.
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