Laurie Chen reports: Every university student’s worst nightmare has become reality in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, where a college has sent detailed grade reports straight to parents. The unusual move came to light when unidentified students from Shenzhen University complained on social network WeChat that they had been asked to provide their parents’…
Category: Youth & Schools
VN: Expulsion of students based on privacy breach questioned
Le Hoang, Vuong Linh, Phan Anh report: The expulsion and suspension of high school students in central Vietnam based on their private conversations has sparked controversy. Eight 15-year-old students from the same class in Nguyen Trai High School, Thanh Hoa Province, were punished for “using social networks to tarnish teachers’ dignity and credibility, negatively affecting…
‘Remini’ App Used by Schools Left Personal Info Open to the World
Joseph Cox reports: Remini, a smartphone app that launched in 2013, aims to provide parents and educators with a social network to follow a child’s progress throughout school and their early life, documenting important milestones and letting parents share images with their child’s school. But Remini exposed these, and the personal information of its users…
UW students publish online ‘rape list’ out of hopelessness
Asia Fields reports: It was 5 a.m. on the first day of school when two University of Washington students started posting flyers around campus. “Do you know the name of someone who has committed sexual assault or harassment? We are collecting names for the world to see,” the flyers read. By the end of the…