Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy

Re:Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy by dboreham on Friday December 04, 2015 @08:47AM (#10676248)

My two sons are in middle school. The school has been transitioning to Google (from self-hosted Windows/Office). They presented a computer/network use and privacy policy for parents to sign. After reading it I sat my kids down and told them to under no circumstances do anything with the school's computers or WiFi network other than activity strictly related to their school assignments. No personal email, no casual web browsing, nothing. They know to use their smart phones for anything non-school related, and to never connect those devices to the school's network.

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Re:Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy by mark_l_watson on Friday December 04, 2015 @09:39AM (#10676521)

+1 for paying attention to the privacy policy!

Our daughter and son in law are also similarly careful about our grandkids' use of school systems and the Internet in general.

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Re:Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy by dboreham on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:27PM (#10677632)

Well, I did have to endure some major eye-rolling from their mother while I held up the line at student enrollment for 20 minutes while I parsed the agreement ;)

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Re:Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy by pdkl95 on Friday December 04, 2015 @02:16PM (#10678398)

This is more evidence that there should be a minimum-reading-time requirement for contracts to be considered valid.

We now have the capability to algorithmically generate an estimate of how long it should take an average person to read any given text. Take something like 3/4 of that time (this value is tunable), and if a person wasn't given at least that much time to read a contract, then there patently cannot be a "meeting of the minds"[1] and the contract was never established.

This removes much of the social pressure against holding up the line, and discourages extra-long contracts. Every contract should be read and understood completely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_the_minds

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Re:Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy by dboreham on Friday December 04, 2015 @05:16PM (#10679571)

I tend to read everything so I usually make light of the delay involved by saying something like "I'm sending this to my attorney for review now" (at which point I put on my glasses, head down and page through the doc for while..).

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Re:Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy by mavhc on Friday December 04, 2015 @05:18PM (#10679585)

Why?, what did it say, and what do you expect to happen?

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