From the but-think-of-the-children dept.: Alan Erwin reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the TalkTalk cyber attack has lost his High Court challenge to an alleged failure to implement legislation that would protect him from media identification. The 15-year-old took action against the Department of Justice over claims it has done nothing about a law…
Category: Youth & Schools
CT: Bristol Board of Ed adopts new student data security policy
Susan Corica reports: The Board of Education has adopted a new policy to protect the privacy of student data, to comply with new state legislation. […] Under the new policy, “for any contract that we generate, after Oct. 1 of 2016, we need to have a clause in there that tells us exactly how they…
University police departments use ‘secret’ cell phone detectors to spy on students and faculty
Joe Cadillic writes: A recent article in the News Gazette, reveals how the University of Illinois police tracked a stolen cell phone to a specific classroom. How did the police, track a stolen cell phone to a specific classroom, you ask? Police across the country are using cell phone detectors, like the ‘Wolfhound-Pro‘ or the “PocketHound” that can track cell phones from…
‘Dehumanizing’ Body-Cavity Search at School
Christine Stuart reports: An upstate New York school district is the focus of an alarming assault complaint that says school officials pried open a student’s vagina and buttocks, and used a flashlight in a futile search for drugs. “This is a first for Harrisville,” school nurse Kelly Avallone laughed, according to the complaint, during the vaginal…