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Today's Info Policy News
compiled by education new york online
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Scroll down to read entries organized by topic alphabetically OR use the topic links at the right to jump to categories of interest.
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Updated Thursday February 02, 2012 11:25 AM
A LETTER TO PARENTSNational Opt-Out Campaign Informs Parents How to Protect the Privacy of their Children's School Records| Date Captured | Tuesday September 20, 2011 04:53 PM | | Parents have rights under the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) to restrict access to their children's personal information. |
| BlogsMISSOURI EDUCATION WATCHDOG| Date Captured | Thursday February 02, 2012 11:25 AM | |
| The Smart Grid and Privacy| Date Captured | Sunday February 21, 2010 07:14 PM | | Concerning Privacy and Smart Grid Technology |
| Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)| Date Captured | Wednesday February 25, 2009 03:27 PM | | EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
EPIC publishes an award-winning e-mail and online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age – the EPIC Alert. EPIC also publishes reports and even books about privacy, open government, free speech, and other important topics related to civil liberties.
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| Legal Guide for Bloggers - Electronic Frontier Foundation - EFF| Date Captured | Saturday February 14, 2009 01:51 AM | | EFF- [Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office.
The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you're doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers.]
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| Matt Blaze's EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH | Date Captured | Sunday December 28, 2008 03:21 PM | | Cryptography blog and links to research. University of Pennsylvania.
Matt bio excerpt [I coined the term, and am one of the inventors of, Trust Management, which provides the abstract layer in which a system decides whether to allow some potentially dangerous action. This work has led to two trust management languages, KeyNote and PolicyMaker, that provide tools for specifying policy, delegating authority, and controlling access. In addition to providing a useful framework for studying and proving security properties of distributed systems, our tools have been used to build powerful policy control mechanisms into several important applications, including the OpenBSD IPSEC implementation.]
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| Deeplinks| Date Captured | Tuesday December 16, 2008 06:21 PM | | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) -- Noteworthy news from around the internet.
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| Surveillance State blog| Date Captured | Sunday December 14, 2008 09:42 PM | | Christopher Soghoian, a student fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and PhD candidate at Indiana University's School of Informatics. |
| Privacy Lives| Date Captured | Friday December 12, 2008 06:15 PM | | Melissa Ngo -- more than a blog -- lots of policy and topic specific archives. |
| Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center | Date Captured | Wednesday December 03, 2008 07:16 PM | | Digital Dashboard |
| Tech Daily Dose| Date Captured | Wednesday December 03, 2008 05:12 PM | | Congress Watch -- National Journal's portal to politics and policy online |
| Pogowasright.org| Date Captured | Wednesday December 03, 2008 04:37 PM | | Privacy news, data breaches, and privacy-related events and resources from around the world.
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| BreachesPrivacy Rights Clearinghouse| Date Captured | Thursday March 12, 2009 02:45 PM | | Chronology of Data Breaches and lots more. Nice upgrade to website.
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| Civil LibertiesThe Center for Democracy and Technology | Date Captured | Monday June 02, 2008 03:34 PM | | The Center for Democracy and Technology is a non-profit public interest organization working to keep the Internet open, innovative, and free. As a civil liberties group with expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT works to enhance free expression and privacy in communications technologies by finding practical and innovative solutions to public policy challenges while protecting civil liberties. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.
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| Current law & proposed legislationNY Assembly bill A.8474 same as NY Senate bill S.2357B| Date Captured | Monday January 23, 2012 12:38 PM | | Requires active parental consent to release personal and sensitive information (categorized as directory information under FERPA) about students. This bill passed the NY Senate 62-0 in the 2011 session. It has been sponsored & reintroduced in the Assembly by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal & in the Senate by Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer for the 2012 legislative session.
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| APPENDIX A: FERPA Guidance for Reasonable Methods and Written Agreements| Date Captured | Thursday January 05, 2012 05:57 PM | | FERPA represents the floor for protecting [student] privacy, not the ceiling. PAGE A-5 Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 232/Friday, December 2, 2011/Rules and Regulations. |
| FERPANY Assembly bill A.8474 same as NY Senate bill S.2357B| Date Captured | Monday January 23, 2012 12:38 PM | | Requires active parental consent to release personal and sensitive information (categorized as directory information under FERPA) about students. This bill passed the NY Senate 62-0 in the 2011 session. It has been sponsored & reintroduced in the Assembly by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal & in the Senate by Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer for the 2012 legislative session.
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| APPENDIX A: FERPA Guidance for Reasonable Methods and Written Agreements| Date Captured | Thursday January 05, 2012 05:57 PM | | FERPA represents the floor for protecting [student] privacy, not the ceiling. PAGE A-5 Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 232/Friday, December 2, 2011/Rules and Regulations. |
| DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 99 in the Federal Register (76 FR 19726)| Date Captured | Monday December 05, 2011 11:20 AM | | SUMMARY: The Secretary of Education
(Secretary) amends the regulations
implementing section 444 of the General
Education Provisions Act (GEPA),
which is commonly referred to as the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act (FERPA). These amendments are
needed to ensure that the U.S.
Department of Education (Department
or we) continues to implement FERPA
in a way that protects the privacy of
education records while allowing for the
effective use of data. Improved access to
data will facilitate States’ ability to
evaluate education programs, to ensure
limited resources are invested
effectively, to build upon what works
and discard what does not, to increase
accountability and transparency, and to
contribute to a culture of innovation and
continuous improvement in education.
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| National Opt-Out Campaign Informs Parents How to Protect the Privacy of their Children's School Records| Date Captured | Tuesday September 20, 2011 04:53 PM | | Parents have rights under the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) to restrict access to their children's personal information. |
| Education New York comments re Student Privacy submitted to FERPA NPRM - May 23, 2011| Date Captured | Monday May 23, 2011 09:22 PM | | Document ID: ED-2011-OM-0002-0001: Family Educational Rights and Privacy. The proposed changes to FERPA do not adequately address the capacity of marketers
and other commercial enterprises to capture, use, and re-sell student information. Even
with privacy controls in place, it is also far too easy for individuals to get a hold of
student information and use it for illegal purposes, including identity theft, child
abduction in custody battles, and domestic violence. Few parents are aware, for
example, that anyone can request -- and receive -- a student directory from a school.
Data and information breaches occur every day in Pre-K-20 schools across the country,
so that protecting student privacy has become a matter of plugging holes in a dyke
rather than advancing a comprehensive policy that makes student privacy protection
the priority.
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| Freedom of Information (FOI)NYS Department of State Committee on Open Government| Date Captured | Saturday February 14, 2009 01:43 AM | | The Committee on Open Government is responsible for overseeing and advising with regard to the Freedom of Information, Open Meetings and Personal Privacy Protection Laws (Public Officers Law, Articles 6, 7 and 6-A respectively). |
| Freedom of Information (FOI)| Date Captured | Saturday December 06, 2008 05:12 PM | | Links to FOI sites. |
| Privacy“The Right to Privacy” | Date Captured | Saturday December 11, 2010 05:58 PM | | Warren and Brandeis - Harvard Law Review. Vol. IV - December 15, 1890 - No. 5 [Recent inventions and business methods call attention to the next step which must be taken for the protection of the person, and for securing to the individual what Judge Cooley calls the right "to be let alone" [10] Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that "what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house-tops." For years there has been a feeling that the law must afford some remedy for the unauthorized circulation of portraits of private persons;[11] and the evil of invasion of privacy by the newspapers, long keenly felt, has been but recently discussed by an able writer.[12] The alleged facts of a somewhat notorious case brought before an inferior tribunal in New York a few months ago,[13] directly involved the consideration of the right of circulating portraits; and the question whether our law will recognize and protect the right to privacy in this and in other respects must soon come before our courts for consideration.]
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| Records ManagementInterPARES| Date Captured | Sunday April 18, 2010 08:42 PM | | [The International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) aims at developing the knowledge essential to the long-term preservation of authentic records created and/or maintained in digital form and providing the basis for standards, policies, strategies and plans of action capable of ensuring the longevity of such material and the ability of its users to trust its authenticity. InterPARES has developed in three phases:] |
| Resource LinksKey Terms/Definitions in Privacy and Confidentiality| Date Captured | Thursday January 06, 2011 02:23 PM | | American Statistical Association's Privacy and Confidentiality Committee |
| New York State Consumer Protection Board (CPB)| Date Captured | Friday December 26, 2008 05:07 PM | | The Consumer Protection Board, established in 1970 by the New York State Legislature, is the State's top consumer watchdog and "think tank." The CPB's core mission is to protect New Yorkers by publicizing unscrupulous and questionable business practices and product recalls; conducting investigations and hearings; enforcing the "Do Not Call Law"; researching issues; developing legislation; creating consumer education programs and materials; responding to individual marketplace complaints by securing voluntary agreements; and, representing the interests of consumers before the Public Service Commission (PSC) and other State and federal agencies.
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| School-Prison-PipelineEDUCATION INTERRUPTED: The Growing Use of Suspensions in New York City’s Public Schools| Date Captured | Thursday October 13, 2011 04:16 PM | | This report analyzes 449,513 suspensions served by New York City students from 1999 to 2009 to draw
a picture of zero tolerance practices in the nation’s largest school district. The number of suspensions
served each school year has nearly doubled in a decade—even though the student population has
decreased over the same period—sending a clear message that public education is a reward for “good”
behavior, rather than a fundamental right. This section explains the methodology we used to analyze the
suspension data, and provides valuable background on zero tolerance discipline.
Section II provides an overview of New York City disciplinary policies and practices. It examines the ever-
increasing emphasis on out-of-class and out-of-school suspensions in New York City’s Discipline Code,
which governs student behavior. This section also analyzes the impact that NYPD school safety officers
have had on the increasing reliance on suspensions and arrests as primary disciplinary tools.
Section III analyzes 10 years of school discipline data in New York City, explaining the data behind our
conclusions. Finally, the report concludes with our recommendations for the DOE, as well as city and
state lawmakers.
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| Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement| Date Captured | Tuesday August 02, 2011 10:09 AM | | This report was prepared by the Council of State Governments Justice Center in
partnership with the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University.
Key findings in the report include the following:
1. Nearly six in ten public school students studied were suspended or expelled at least once between their seventh- and twelfth-grade school years.
2. African-American students and those with particular educational disabilities were disproportionately likely to be removed from the classroom for disciplinary reasons.
3. Students who were suspended and/or expelled, particularly those who were repeatedly disciplined, were more likely to be held back a grade or to drop out than were students not involved in the disciplinary system.
4. When a student was suspended or expelled, his or her likelihood of being involved in the juvenile justice system the subsequent year increased significantly.
5. Suspension and expulsion rates among schools—even those schools with similar student compositions and campus characteristics—varied significantly. |
| Social NetworkingFACEBOOK privacy policy link:| Date Captured | Monday April 26, 2010 08:32 PM | | Facebook’s Privacy Policy.
This policy contains eight sections:
1. Introduction;
2. Information We Receive;
3. Information You Share With Third Parties;
4. Sharing Information on Facebook;
5. How We Use Your Information;
6. How We Share Information;
7. How You Can View, Change, or Remove Information;
8. How We Protect Information;
9. Other Terms. |
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