Amy B. Wang reports: “‘Terms and conditions’ is one of the first things you agree to when you come upon a site,” Jenny Afia, a privacy lawyer and partner at Schillings law firm in London, told The Washington Post. “But of course no one reads them. I mean, most adults don’t read them.” Afia was…
Category: Youth & Schools
The perfect storm: three bills that will destroy student data privacy in England
Jen Persson writes: Lords have voiced criticism and concern at plans for ‘free market’ universities, that will prioritise competition over collaboration and private interests over social good. But while both Houses have identified the institutional effects, they are yet to discuss the effects on the individuals of a bill in which “too much power is concentrated in…
Anti-gun-control presentation on high school student’s flash drive leads to psychological exam, litigation
Is the take-home message that students should never criticize school personnel if they’ve ever worn a Soviet trench coat, or that they shouldn’t criticize gun control advocates? Is this what we get when DHS issues lists of “warning signs” or “red flags” that could apply to so many people? Or was the school right to want a psychiatric evaluation…
Special Rights For Special Needs
Scott Greenfield writes: As Jacob Sollum notes at Reason, the good news is that the en banc Eighth Circuit held that blanket drug testing for students at Linn State, or officially, State Technical College of Missouri, was unconstitutional. Last week a federal appeals court ruled that requiring incoming students at a state college to surrender their urine for drug testing…