Joel Reidenberg appeared in a PBS NewsHour report about data privacy and schoolchildren. As public education becomes more and more digitized, it puts student data at risk of being compromised, according to the report.
JOEL REIDENBERG, Fordham University: We’re going to have a lot of data floating around, with a lot of very detailed information that can be quite surprising.
One example: What a child eats in the school cafeteria is collected, using a student I.D. card. We can envision a day, for example, that a health insurance company wants to see what they ate when they were third-graders to decide how they were going to underwrite insurance. Is it farfetched? Could be. We don’t know.
The report includes a separate interview that Reidenberg did with Education Week.
