Joe Cadillic writes: Your child’s writings, texts etc., could get them arrested and put on the Terror Watch List. Future policing and incarceration is becoming a reality, a B.S. study called “Profiling School Shooters: Automatic Text-Based Analysis” alleges DHS, teachers and psychologists can identify future school shooters based entirely on a students writings! What’s that you say? It can’t possibly…
Category: Youth & Schools
Dorm room search that found drugs didn’t violate college student’s privacy rights, Pa. court rules
Matt Miller reports: Officials of a Pennsylvania college didn’t violate the privacy rights of a student when they searched her dorm room and found marijuana that led to her conviction for drug dealing, a state court panel ruled Wednesday. The Superior Court decision nixes a lawsuit Kylie Walk filed against Alvernia College – now Alvernia…
Privacy Concerns Don’t Curb Use of Classroom Apps
Tom Risen reports: Laptops, tablets and smartphones each year play a more prominent role in schools, despite lingering concerns that private companies and government agencies are using such devices to collect massive amounts of data that can be used to profile students. While chalkboards and paper flashcards were once mainstays for teachers in kindergarten through…
Privacy Quiz: How Do You Stop Schools From Sharing Kids’ Data?
Herb Weisbaum reports: For parents, the return to school means signing a stack of permission forms. One that’s easy to miss deals with the privacy of your child’s personal information – and your right to stop the school from sharing it. Schools are allowed by federal law to share or sell “directory information” about their…