Henrietta Cook reports: School children are among the 53 people who have been charged with new sexting offences in Victoria. There have been 174 sexting offences recorded since the laws came into effect, and around 29 per cent of alleged offenders were minors aged between 10 and 17, according to figures from the Crime Statistics Agency….
Category: Youth & Schools
PK: Lahore Board is Exposing Private Data of All Students to Make Money
The problems are obviously not unique to the U.S. Aamir Attaa writes: Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education is shamelessly exposing the private data of every student that appeared for its SSC examination just to make few thousand or few hundred thousand rupees at most. Exposed information include name, mobile phone number, address, CNIC, school name, father…
Norway body says web images of children may breach privacy
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) says publishing photographs of one’s offspring online could breach their right to privacy, according to newspaper Verdens Gang’s website, VG.no. It cited the authority’s communications advisor, Guro Skaltveit, as saying parents tend to publish images of their children that they would never publish of themselves, setting an incautious example….
Sen. Warner Calls on FTC to Protect Children’s Data Security with Internet-Connected “Smart Toys”
U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) yesterday urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to work with Congress to strengthen efforts to protect children’s personal information given the increase in apps and Internet-connected “smart toys” that can collect and store data on minors and their parents. In a letter to FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, Sen. Warner expressed…