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FPF has partnered with the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) to continue our series of free privacy bootcamps for ed tech companies during the ISTE conference in Chicago. Slots are limited, so RSVP to attend now!

[…] information that will be shared in response to that threat. However, privacy should never get in the way of preventing school violence. In the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was amended to clarify when information can be shared during a health or safety emergency. However, […]

[…] and have begun administering the test directly. This change occurred for two reasons. First, states and districts want to increase college access – by making the ACT/SAT free, it removes an economic barrier to entering college. Second, the ACT/SAT is now being used by some states as the high school english and math assessment […]

[…] trust in their devices. TVs are expensive. In many cases, personalized digital advertising in online platforms is defended on the grounds that it enables much of the free content that we enjoy. This argument may not translate well to the context of devices purchased at some expense. For such a device, higher standards for […]

[…] What happened? Strava is a San Francisco-based company that provides location-based fitness tracking for runners and cyclists (calling itself the “social network for athletes”). Users can download Strava’s free app and use it to directly map their workouts, or pair it with a fitness device, such as a FitBit. In this sense, Strava is very […]

[…] when she signed up her child for the school constituted a forced waiver of parental rights under FERPA. Agora noted that, as a charter school, parents were free to enroll their children elsewhere.  Further, Agora argued that parents’ choice to enroll their children at Agora meant that acceptance of the K12 Terms of Use […]

[…] the notion of protecting information that has been made public with traditional accounts of privacy. As a result, successfully labeling information as public often results in a free pass for surveillance and personal data practices. It has also given birth to a significant and persistent misconception—that public information is an established and objective concept. […]

[…] Trade Commission’s PrivacyCon. FPF will subsequently publish a printed digest of summaries of the winning papers for distribution to policymakers, privacy professionals, and the public. PPPM is free, open to the general public, and widely attended. To RSVP, please visit privacypapersforpolicymakers.eventbrite.com. This event is supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. 1654085.  Any opinions, findings […]

[…] profiles from a variety of “offline” sources — such as loyalty programs and offline shopping habits — in ways that fall outside of the strictures of self-regulatory codes, but nonetheless may be unexpected or surprising to many consumers. For these reasons, consumer education is more important than ever, and self-regulatory mechanisms such as the […]

[…] within the tech sector.” A progressive political group “filed FOIA requests seeking the publicly available student directories to get student cell phone numbers at every one of Virginia’s 39 public colleges. Of those, 18 schools, including Tech and Radford, complied.” This will lead to legislation banning directory information disclosures for this purpose next spring. […]