WNEP reports: It’s that time of year when nurses’ offices in schools across the country are full of children feeling ill. At Saint Clair Area Elementary School, the school is participating in a program aimed towards keeping its students healthy during flu season with some help from technology. […] FLUency is a health program by…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Former headteacher prosecuted for unlawfully obtaining school children’s personal information
A former headteacher has been fined in court for unlawfully obtaining school children’s personal data from previous schools where he worked. Darren Harrison of Twickenham, obtained the information from two primary schools were he had worked, and uploaded it to his then current school’s server. As he had no lawful reason to process the personal…
Parents are using GPS ankle monitors to track their teenagers like criminals
Justin Rohrlich reports: There’s no shortage of GPS trackers for parents who want to keep tabs on their children’s driving. After all, car accidents are the leading cause of death for American teens. For some parents, that’s enough. For others, nothing but a full-on ankle monitor—the kind used to track people released on bail or parole—will do….
Oath Agrees to $5 Million Settlement Over Children’s Privacy Online
Sapna Maheshwari reports: Oath, the owner of AOL and Yahoo, has agreed to pay about $5 million to settle charges from the New York attorney general that the media company’s online advertising business was violating a federal children’s privacy law. AOL, through its ad exchange, helped place targeted display ads on hundreds of websites that…