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Who Controls Children's Education Data? A Socio-Legal Analysis of the UK Governance Regimes for Schools and EdTech
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Emma Day; Kruakae Pothong; Ayça Atabey; Sonia Livingstone – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regime for data collected from children at school for teaching and learning contrasts the government-mandated data collection by schools to inform educational policy and planning with data processed and shared with third parties by commercial EdTech providers. We find the former is effectively governed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Information Security, Student Records
Canada in Context: An Overview of Information Policies in Four Industrialized Countries.
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Buchwald, Cheryl Cowan – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 1995
Provides an overview and comparison of the historical trends in information policy-making and recent proposals for the information infrastructure in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the European Union, and Canada. The role of the private sector, including transnational corporations, is also considered. (MES)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Information Networks
U.K. Data Protection in the Context of European Policy.
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Stratford, Jean Slemmons; Stratford, Juri – Journal of Government Information, 1998
Examines the established data protection policy in the United Kingdom, to provide some context and background against which to judge existing and evolving U.S. policies. The Data Protection Act of 1984, the Council of Europe Convention on Data Protection, and the European Union Data Protection Directive are discussed. Online sources of further…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Government Publications, Information Policy