The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Department of Education today to protect university students’ right to speak anonymously online, warning that curtailing anonymous speech as part of anti-harassment regulations would not only violate the Constitution but also jeopardize important on-campus activism. “Battling gender and racial harassment and threats on college campuses is vitally important,”…
Category: Youth & Schools
University of Southern California apologizes for survey asking students to report number of sex partners in required online class
Nancy Dillon reports: A survey of students’ carnal knowledge sparked a national controversy Tuesday — and led to an apology from the University of Southern California. The clash was over a mandatory online class that asked students to tally and reveal the number of sex partners they had been with over the last three months,…
Violating kids’ privacy no way to make money
Linda Chavez writes: Hooking up online and improving college exam scores wouldn’t seem to have much in common, but apparently the nation’s largest online dating service company is betting they do. The Match Group of dating sites — which includes Match.com, Tinder, OkCupid, FriendScout24, PlentyOfFish and Chemistry.com — spun off in late 2015 from IAC…
WY: Bill would protect student social media privacy
AP reports: A proposed bill to protect the privacy of students’ social media accounts would mandate that Wyoming Department of Education officials draft a statewide data privacy policy. From Facebook to Instagram, Senate File 14 would prohibit teachers and school officials from requiring students to provide access to personal accounts. The bill includes a $1,000…