From the Road-to-Hell-is-Paved-with-Good-Intentions and What-Could-Possibly-Go-Wrong? departments, T. Keung Hui reports: Some Wake County parents are refusing to give permission for teachers to conduct surveys that rate and track the behavioral health of their students. The Wake County school system will have teachers at around 40 schools rate their students on 34 questions, such as how…
Category: Youth & Schools
Amazon Can’t Force Arbitration of Minors’ Privacy Claims Based on Alexa Recordings–BF v. Amazon
Venkat Balasubramani writes: This lawsuit alleges that Alexa improperly stores the voiceprints of minor users. The trial court declines to order arbitration. (It’s the recommendation of a magistrate, so it will go to the district judge for adoption or modification of the order.) There is no dispute that the parents accepted Amazon’s terms of use,…
Facebook bans notorious child groomer amid warning to over 3,650 girls and young women who may still be his ‘friends’
Paige Freshwater reports: A notorious child groomer created 26 Facebook accounts to prey on girls and young women, GrimsbyLive can reveal. Louis Kirby manage to gather at least 3,650 ‘friends’ across the profiles as part of his sordid campaign to lure girls into sexual conversations. Hundreds are believed too have been girls and young women,…
Iowa City schools secure funds to monitor students’ social media accounts
Aimee Breaux reports: Iowa City Community School District has secured federal funding to monitor students’ social media accounts for possible warning signs that students might harm themselves or peers. A portion of the $187,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice is earmarked to contract a company to scan social media posts of students in the district. The district received the…