Sarah Schulte reports: Hundreds of Chicago Public School parents want to know who gave away their contact information. They said the looming threat of a teacher strike has a charter school network soliciting them to switch schools. A mailer the size of a post card with a glossy cover was mailed out from the Noble…
Category: Youth & Schools
North Jersey school installs fingerprint readers
Administrators at a North Jersey school have calmed privacy concerns after a school in Englewood started using biometric readers to authenticate meal payments. The school installed the reader after abuse of a card system, with pupils that were permitted free meals swiping in for their friends. Parents have said at a local meeting that there hasn’t…
NYS AG Announces Results Of “Operation Child Tracker,” Ending Illegal Online Tracking Of Children At Some Of Nation’s Most Popular Kids’ Websites
Viacom, Mattel, Hasbro, And JumpStart Violated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act By Allowing Illegal Third-Party Tracking Technology At Websites For Barbie, Nick Jr., My Little Pony, American Girl, Hot Wheels, And Dozens Of Others Companies Agree To Pay Penalties Totaling $835,000, Adopt Comprehensive Reforms To Protect Children From Improper Tracking From the NYS AG press…
Austrian teenager sues parents for ‘violating privacy’ with childhood Facebook pictures (updated)
CORRECTION AND UPDATE: The story appears to have been a fake and the other case turned out to be well-written satire that I didn’t spot as satire because I stupidly forgot to explore the site. But as Kashmir Hill points out, the Austrian teen fake story raises some important privacy issues. Original post: Justin Huggler reports: A woman in Austria is suing her…