Christopher Harris reports: Australia’s top cyber safety boss has warned that strangers can directly contact students via a privacy glitch in education software, which is available to every public school student in NSW. The loophole allows predators to verify a student’s email using Google Hangouts and then contact them directly or by sharing a Google…
Category: Youth & Schools
IE: ECI has ‘serious concerns’ about installing CCTV in crèches
RTÉ reports: Early Childhood Ireland has called for action in the wake of the RTÉ Investigates programme into the Hyde & Seek chain of crèches. The representative body for crèches said the revelations caused “enormous anguish” among many of its members, and there is now an opportunity to transform the funding, administration and oversight of…
Texas School District To Drug Test Students As Young As 12
CBS/AP reports: A school district in Texas will begin drug testing students as young as 12 years old who are interested in playing sports or participating in other extracurricular activities. Testing will begin with the resumption of classes next month at Bushland Independent School District and will be required of students in grades seven through…
Report: YouTube to pay FTC fine over kids’ data protection
AP reports: Google is expected to pay a multimillion dollar penalty from the Federal Trade Commission over its handling of kids’ information on its popular video site YouTube. That’s according to a Washington Post report that Google has reached a settlement with the agency. The FTC was reportedly investigating YouTube for violating a federal law…