Stewart Mitchell reports: Teachers could get the right to search mobile phone content in a bid to clampdown on cyber-bullying under the new Education Bill. The bill was introduced into parliament in January and is now being honed in committees, but education officials are split over the need for Draconian rules that would would enable…
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Foggy thinking about the Right to Oblivion
Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, has a personal blog where he shares his own (not his boss’s) thoughts. He writes: In privacy circles, everybody’s talking about the Right to be Forgotten. The European Commission has even proposed that the “right to be forgotten” should be written into the up-coming revision of the Privacy Directive….
Cn: Fuzhou University denies privacy breach
There’s a lot more I’d like to know about the details of this incident, but it sounds like although Fuzhou University denies a privacy breach, their actions really do sound privacy-invasive. China Daily/Asia News Network reports: Students at Fuzhou University have recently received a questionnaire in which they were asked to respond using their real…
Schools rush to fingerprint children before UK Freedom Bill change
Andrea Petrou reports: Fingerprinting of children has got worse, with “more and more schools falling over themselves” to get pupil biometrics, a rights group has told TechEye. Action on Rights for Children (ARCH) is wondering if the rush is because of proposed changes in the Freedom bill. Currently, schools don’t have to ask for parental…