Dangerous Classroom "App"-titude: Protecting Student Privacy from Third-Party Educational Service Providers
Alexis M. Peddy · BYU Law Library (Brigham Young University) · 2017
1 This would be considered a type of "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) program, which allows students to bring their own laptops, tablets, cellphones, and other mobile devices in order to access certain activities, such as cloud-computing services and mobile applications, provided at school.See Getting Started with BYOD, K-12 BLUEPRINT (2014), https://www.k12blueprint.com/sites/default/files/Getting-Started-BYOD.pdf.Khan Academy is one common mobile application schools use to improve learning and gauge a student's progress.See infra note 8.2 See Beyond the Fear Factor: Parental Support for Technology and Data Use in Schools, FUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM 4 (Sept.2015), https://fpf.org/wp-content/uploads/Beyond-the-Fear-Factor_Sept2015.pdf[hereinafter Beyond the Fear Factor] (stating that online services may be used by schools "to manage grades, attendance, class assignments, bus routes, school lunch programs, special education services, counseling, standardized testing, and the myriad other functions they provide on a continuous basis.").The most common Internet practices include the use of cloudcomputing programs, online textbooks, and mobile applications.Cloud computing, or storing data "in the cloud," provides a school with Internet-based email, word processing, and spreadsheet programs, allowing for anytime, anywhere access by the students, teachers, and administrators.Steve Mutkoski, Cloud Computing, Regulatory Compliance