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…
Category: Youth & Schools
EPIC, International Consumer Coalition Urges Recall on “Toys That Spy”
EPIC has filed a landmark complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about “toys that spy.” The complaint alleges that My Friend Cayla and i-Que Robot violate federal privacy law. “The toys subject young children to ongoing surveillance,” EPIC said in a statement. The EPIC complaint targets manufacturer Genesis Toys and Nuance Communications and describes how Internet-connected toys pose ongoing serious safety threats to…
Texas Tea Party Lawmaker Pushes for Schools to Out Their Students to Parents
Rachel Vorono Cote writes: Konni Burton, a Texas Tea Party state senator, has proposed a bill that would lawfully require school employees to out queer students to their parents, regardless of the students’ wishes. According to LOGO, Burton has just filed Senate Bill 242, which mandates disciplinary action against any school employee who does not disclose the sexual…
Department of Justice consulting on ‘age of digital consent’
Irish Legal News reports: The Department of Justice has launched a consultation on the statutory “age of digital consent” to be applied in Ireland as part of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Article 8 of the GDPR provides that, in the case of information society services offered directly to a child, parental consent is required where personal…