Austin Berg has a welcomed update to a case that never should have been hanging over a teenager’s head: Paul Boron no longer has a potential felony hanging over his head. But Illinois’ eavesdropping law means others like him might not be so lucky. The young Illinoisan spent his summer at the center of an…
Category: Youth & Schools
Ca: Administrators won’t remove camera pointed at school bathrooms
Jack Julian reports: Education officials in Cape Breton are refusing to remove a video camera pointed at the entrance of two student bathrooms, despite objections from Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner. The camera was one of several at the Rankin School of the Narrows in Iona that was streaming live images to the internet last year because no one set the…
PH: Privacy breach at center of pregnancy test probe
Philippine Daily Inquirer reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Wednesday began investigating a medical school here to determine if it was liable for unauthorized data collection when it directed its female students to undergo pregnancy tests. The first hearing was held behind closed doors, but Pines City Colleges said that mandatory pregnancy examinations were meant…
University Says Plan to Search Student Devices to ‘Be Finalized’
Fan Liya reports: A university in southern China said a plan to “thoroughly check” students’ electronic devices for illegal content was yet “to be finalized” after the announcement faced backlash online, Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper reported Tuesday. Guilin University of Electronic Technology in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had issued a campus-wide notice that…