Joe Cadillic writes: Law enforcement and more than one hundred colleges and universities have convinced their students to download ‘public safety’ apps that send tips to police in real-time. The apps go by names like ‘LiveSafe’ and ‘SafeTrek’ and their selling point is, helping students feel safe. These apps use GPS technology which allows law enforcement to monitor…
Category: Youth & Schools
YouTube Is Improperly Collecting Children’s Data, Consumer Groups Say
Sapna Maheshwari reports: A coalition of more than 20 consumer advocacy groups is expected to file a complaint with federal officials on Monday claiming that YouTube has been violating a children’s privacy law. The complaint contends that YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, has been collecting and profiting from the personal information of young children on…
Mandatory Transparent Backpacks Violate Students’ Privacy Rights (Or Do They?)
Robby Soave writes: Students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this morning sporting new, mandatory transparent backpacks. This so-called safety measure, like so many others proposed in the wake of the horrific mass shooting—installing metal detectors, hiring more school resource officers, raising the minimum age to purchase an AR-15—is security theater. One can understand…
UN Agencies and Civil Society Organisations’ joint statement: Coercion of children to obtain fingerprints and facial images is never acceptable
From the United Nations, via Joe Cadillic: BRUSSELS (28 February 2018) – We, the undersigned civil society and UN organizations, are concerned by proposals now under consideration as part of the ongoing reform of the Common European Asylum System which would allow the use of coercion to take the fingerprints and facial images of children….