Student Privacy

Meta has removed several accounts across Threads and Instagram that were used to track celebrities’ private jets. The accounts, which rely on publicly available information to track a jet’s location and CO2 emissions, among other details, were banned without warning this week after Meta updated its privacy policy.

UNESCO on Thursday published its first guidance on use of Generative AI (GenAI) for education, urging governmental agencies to regulate the use of the technology, including protection of data privacy and putting an age limit for users. GenAI chatbot ChatGPT has become the world's fastest growing app to date, and its emergence has prompted the relea...

CBSE Result 2022: In order to strengthen security and data privacy of students, a six-digit security PIN-based activation for students' DigiLocker accounts has been introduced to access CBSE result 2022.

Short-range phone sensors and campuswide Wi-Fi networks are empowering colleges across the United States to track hundreds of thousands of students more precisely than ever before.

What is the special privacy available to students in a classroom to bar installation of CCTV cameras there when they would already be captured by cameras on the campus, corridors and outside the school, the Delhi High Court observed on Thursday.

Several research scholars and hostel inmates of IIT-Madras in Tamil Nadu capital Chennai have alleged harassment and violation of their privacy by vigilance officers during checks conducted in their rooms, a charge denied by the Dean of students.

The Delhi government has mandated students at city schools to disclose their Aadhaar and Voter ID information in an effort to identify those hailing from neighbouring states. The issue has snowballed into a major controversy, with legal experts citing privacy violations and opposition parties terming it as a "conspiracy".

UGC has directed universities to not print Aadhaar number of students on their marks sheets or certificates issued by the universities.

The Kerala High Court has quashed a Kochi college order expelling a woman and her senior for eloping, saying "love is blind and an innate humane instinct. It is all about individuals and their freedom".

A messaging group created by Harvard College students to share popular culture memes got an offshoot group, where the exchanges took a dark turn, according to an article published in the Harvard Crimson.

"They're building a profile so they can advertise to them. They expressly stated in writing that they would not do that."

Is it fair for the postman to read your letter? I don't think so.

Two Indian students are mounting a legal challenge to Facebook, seeking to wind back changes to WhatsApp's privacy policy that they say threatens the rights of millions of users.

In a brief hearing in the Delhi court last week, WhatsApp said it doesn't intend to share user content with Facebook except user names and phone numbers.

In public classrooms across the country, the corporate name that is fast becoming as common as pencils and erasers is Google.

Meta has removed several accounts across Threads and Instagram that were used to track celebrities’ private jets. The accounts, which rely on publicly available information to track a jet’s location and CO2 emissions, among other details, were banned without warning this week after Meta updated its privacy policy.

UNESCO on Thursday published its first guidance on use of Generative AI (GenAI) for education, urging governmental agencies to regulate the use of the technology, including protection of data privacy and putting an age limit for users. GenAI chatbot ChatGPT has become the world's fastest growing app to date, and its emergence has prompted the relea...

CBSE Result 2022: In order to strengthen security and data privacy of students, a six-digit security PIN-based activation for students' DigiLocker accounts has been introduced to access CBSE result 2022.

Short-range phone sensors and campuswide Wi-Fi networks are empowering colleges across the United States to track hundreds of thousands of students more precisely than ever before.

What is the special privacy available to students in a classroom to bar installation of CCTV cameras there when they would already be captured by cameras on the campus, corridors and outside the school, the Delhi High Court observed on Thursday.

Several research scholars and hostel inmates of IIT-Madras in Tamil Nadu capital Chennai have alleged harassment and violation of their privacy by vigilance officers during checks conducted in their rooms, a charge denied by the Dean of students.

The Delhi government has mandated students at city schools to disclose their Aadhaar and Voter ID information in an effort to identify those hailing from neighbouring states. The issue has snowballed into a major controversy, with legal experts citing privacy violations and opposition parties terming it as a "conspiracy".

UGC has directed universities to not print Aadhaar number of students on their marks sheets or certificates issued by the universities.

The Kerala High Court has quashed a Kochi college order expelling a woman and her senior for eloping, saying "love is blind and an innate humane instinct. It is all about individuals and their freedom".

A messaging group created by Harvard College students to share popular culture memes got an offshoot group, where the exchanges took a dark turn, according to an article published in the Harvard Crimson.

"They're building a profile so they can advertise to them. They expressly stated in writing that they would not do that."

Is it fair for the postman to read your letter? I don't think so.

Two Indian students are mounting a legal challenge to Facebook, seeking to wind back changes to WhatsApp's privacy policy that they say threatens the rights of millions of users.

In a brief hearing in the Delhi court last week, WhatsApp said it doesn't intend to share user content with Facebook except user names and phone numbers.

In public classrooms across the country, the corporate name that is fast becoming as common as pencils and erasers is Google.