Samantha Hawkins reports: Chicago’s Roosevelt University prevailed in a privacy suit brought by a labor union over its use of biometric hand scans, with an Illinois appeals court justice ruling that a federal labor law trumped the state’s privacy law. The case was brought by William Walton, an employee in Roosevelt’s campus safety department, who…
Category: U.S.
NWMSU student charged for invasion of privacy
Nick Ingram reports: A Northwest Missouri State University student has been charged after allegedly filming students without their consent. According to court documents, Logan D. Fainter was charged with felony invasion of privacy after two victims reported that a cell phone was pointed at them while they were in the shower on on the third…
Amendment to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill would force schools to out students in 6 weeks
This will get some children beat up, killed, or driven to suicide. Sam Sachs reports: A new amendment to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill would explicitly require schools to inform parents of their child’s sexual orientation, and put a deadline on how soon they must tell the family. The amendment filed by bill sponsor Rep. Joe Harding, R-Williston, on…
After Sexual Harassment Lawsuit, Critics Attack Harvard’s Release of Therapy Records
Anemona Hartocollis reports: In 2020, after Lilia Kilburn, a graduate student, filed a formal complaint notifying Harvard University that an anthropology professor was sexually harassing her, an investigation was opened, as required by federal law. What happened next stunned Ms. Kilburn, according to her lawyers. In the course of that investigation, Harvard obtained notes from…