Katie Deighton reports: A pair of California lawmakers introduced a bill that aims to hold technology companies liable for social-media addictions that may affect children. The bill would let parents and guardians sue platforms that they believe addicted children in their care through advertising, push notifications and design features that promote compulsive use, particularly the…
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Federal violation? Anchorage school district keeps student gender pronouns a secret from parents
Suzanne Downing reports: Parents logging into the Q/ParentConnection database in the Anchorage School District’s web pages can find up-to-date information about their students, including items such as grades, contact information, and class news. Some parents know this website as Zangle. What they don’t see is what the school district officials can see — the student’s preferred pronoun….
Geofence Warrants Are the Future (and That’s a Good Thing)
Eugene Volohn writes: Jane Bambauer, a leading information law scholar (both on the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment side), wrote up these thoughts on the recent geofencing case, on which Orin had also written; I’m delighted to be able to pass them along: Last week, Judge Lauck of the Eastern District of Virginia handed down the…
Of Note: College Transparency Act poses serious risk to student privacy — Groups
Pl share! Letter to Congress in opposition to privacy invasive College Transparency Act that wd allow feds to track every college student thru life; letter signed by @parents4privacy @ACLU @Fairplay @EPICprivacy @ConsumerFed @Network4publiced & others https://t.co/Rz5Ye6W4Lv pic.twitter.com/5f3g7fqrwu — leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) March 14, 2022 Direct link to larger view of letter. Update: As I discussed…