Robert Fellmeth, a professor of public-interest law and director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law, writes: A class-action settlement covers adult users of Facebook, but also 11 million teenagers whose need for privacy is underlined by their immaturity and the angst when they discover their posts or photos…
Category: Youth & Schools
Where does the data go? New Canaan moms work to protect student privacy
Erin Kayata reports on what some parents in New Canaan accomplished after they started looking into where their children’s data goes. Together the women, along with other mothers from Fairfield County, began advocating for student data privacy. Now on October 1 of this year, two years after they began championing for this, Public Act 16-189…
Supreme Court blocks transgender victory on bathrooms
Richard Wolf reports: The supreme court on Wednesday blocked a court order giving a transgender student access to the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia high school, in what is the high court’s first ruling on an increasingly contentious topic. The ruling permits the Gloucester county school board to continue barring Gavin Grimm, a trans boy,…
Ca: Edmonton school breached transgender student’s privacy, arbitrator says
Janet French reports: An Edmonton public school breached a transgender girl’s privacy when teachers called out her male birth name during attendance at least six times, Alberta’s privacy commissioner’s office has ruled. “I think it’s a landmark ruling because it clearly outlines that transgender students’ identity must be protected in all Alberta schools,” said University…