Hunter Field reports: After a committee discussed his proposal for an hour, the sponsor of a bill that would require schools to place video cameras in special education classrooms upon request agreed to temporarily hold the bill to make several changes. House Bill 1019 by Rep. Jim Sorvillo, R-Little Rock, would mandate that schools install…
Category: Youth & Schools
EPIC Joins Coalition Calling on FTC to Investigate Facebook for Deception of Children
From EPIC.org: A coalition of consumer groups sent a complaint to the FTC, charging that Facebook engaged in unfair and deceptive practices and violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act after court documents from a 2012 class action lawsuit revealed that Facebook encouraged children to make credit card purchases on Facebook’s platform. Parents and minors…
Child identity theft on the rise
Jordan Berger reports: At least 1 million children were impacted by identity theft in the past year. A 2018 studyconducted by Javelin found the identity fraud resulted in more than $2.6 billion in total losses, and over $540 million in out-of-pocket costs to families. Jeff Pitts, a public information officer with the Columbia Police Department,…
[UPDATED] Supreme Court of Canada to rule on case of teacher who secretly filmed students’ cleavage
UPDATE of Feb. 14: Hallelujah, common sense and privacy prevailed. Michael Geist tweets: Supreme Court of Canada overturns Court of Appeal in Jarvis with win for privacy – “students recorded by the accused were in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy” https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/17515/index.do — Michael Geist (@mgeist) February 14, 2019 Supreme Court…