Here is the link to the 400 bits of information on our kids and teachers that will be uploaded to inbloom cloud on Oct 31st! Q: Is this being done with parental consent, and if not, doesn’t this violate legal privacy protections? A: Representatives from inBloom and the Gates Foundation said it would be up to states and districts to decide what their parental notification and opt-out policies will be. According to a spokesman for the New York State Education Department, parents have no right to opt out or consent, because when parents register a child for school they give up” the right to keep their children’s information private. NYSED defends its position by saying that they are compliant with FERPA, or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the federal law that governs student privacy. FERPA’s regulations were rewritten in 2009 and again in 2012 to facilitate the sharing of confidential student data without parental consent. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education on the grounds that the federal government has weakened FERPA’s regulations in a way that violates the language and original intent of the law
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:54:08 +0000
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