Kelly Gorrigan reports: Parents and students weighed in Thursday on a recent decision by Glendale school officials to continue monitoring students’ public social media posts this school year.Throughout last school year, the Hermosa Beach-based company Geo Listening sent Glendale Unified emails whenever students’ posts were related to bullying, suicide, vandalism or drug use, among other…
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Tennessee Legislature Adds Employee Privacy Protections to “Internet Accounts”
Joshua Sudbury of FordHarrison writes: Accessing information about employees and applicants via their social media accounts just got a bit more complicated in Tennessee. This past legislative session, the Tennessee General Assembly passed the “Employee Online Privacy Act of 2014” aimed at protecting employees and applicants from being forced by an employer to turn over…
‘Take down Facebook honeymoon snaps’: Italian court
A court in Naples has ordered a woman to take down photos posted on Facebook from her honeymoon after her husband complained that he did not give his permission for her to post them. She may even have to pay damages. Read more on The Local (IT).
Court orders Yahoo to face privacy suit over scanned email
Bloomberg reports: Yahoo! Inc was yesterday ordered by a federal judge to face a lawsuit alleging its scanning of email to target advertising violates users’ privacy rights. In a mixed ruling, US District Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, California, granted Yahoo’s request to throw out federal wiretap claims that its terms of service…