NBC10 reports: In Bensalem, Bucks County, the school district has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on some 500 surveillance cameras in and around its facilities. But the township police director, Fred Harran, doesn’t think they are enough. He is pushing for preventative measures on another front. Harran wants Pennsylvania lawmakers to give greater access…
Category: Youth & Schools
Unproven facial-recognition companies target schools, promising an end to shootings
Drew Harwell reports: The facial-recognition cameras installed near the bounce houses at the Warehouse, an after-school recreation center in Bloomington, Ind., are aimed low enough to scan the face of every parent, teenager and toddler who walks in. The center’s executive director, David Weil, learned earlier this year of the surveillance system from a church…
Russian lawmakers want to stop older teenagers from hiding their medical records from their parents
Meduza reports: Regional lawmakers from Samara have submitted draft legislation to the State Duma that would limit medical privacy for minors between the ages of 15 and 17, granting their parents access to their medical records. The law’s explanatory note warns that “older adolescents are often disinclined to inform their parents about unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, injuries sustained in…
Research: Transparency and the Marketplace for Student Data
A new – and important – multi-year study by researchers at Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy has just been released today. The research team, consisting of N. Cameron Russell, Joel R. Reidenberg, Elizabeth Martin, and Thomas B. Norton, assisted by Fordham Law students Samuel Borenzweig and Noelle Park, investigated a number of critical questions related to how data…