Dell Cameron reports: An online surveillance tool that enabled hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agencies to track and collect information on social media users was also marketed for use in American public schools, the Daily Dot has learned. Geofeedia sold surveillance software typically bought by police to a high school in a northern Chicago suburb, less…
Category: Youth & Schools
The Patchwork of State Student Privacy Laws
David Raths reports: To help school administrators, families, technology companies and state legislators sort through the patchwork quilt of state legislation on student privacy, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), an advocacy group, has developed a state-by-state survey of student privacy laws in partnership with the law firm BakerHostetler. THE Journal recently spoke with Michelle De Mooy,…
Judge recommends against reversing District 211 transgender policy
Eric Peterson reports: A federal magistrate judge has recommended against a preliminary injunction that would reverse Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211’s decision allowing a transgender student to use a girls locker room and restroom at Fremd High School in Palatine. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert’s 82-page recommendation to District Judge Jorge Alonso comes more than…
Filming a child at the moment they learn their mum has died is wrong and sharing it with the world is even worse
Kerri Sackville writes: … I am a passionate advocate of the right to children to privacy, and this video violates even the loosest of ethical codes. A young child is being filmed in his most painful and private moment – the moment he is learning of the loss of his mother. It is not enough that…