Alyssa Nakamoto reports that in light of controvery in Florida over schools’ use of Snaptrends to monitor students’ social media activity, KUSA inquired what schools in Denver were doing with respect to social media policies. Adams 12 School District says it is aware of the program. It says it has been evaluating the program as…
Category: Youth & Schools
NC Law: Teens who take nude selfie photos face adult sex charges
Paul Woolverton reports: After a 16-year-old Fayetteville girl made a sexually explicit nude photo of herself for her boyfriend last fall, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office concluded that she committed two felony sex crimes against herself and arrested her in February. The girl was listed on a warrant as both the adult perpetrator and the…
Student Privacy Is in Danger, but Arizona Is Fighting Back
Logan Albright of FreedomWorks writes about an effort in Arizona to push back against the massive data collection and sharing of students’ personally identifiable information: Rep. Mark Finchem is working on a project called “It’s My PII,” which is seeking an injunction against the federal government’s ability to collect PII without parental consent, and challenging executive action…
Questions raised over children’s websites and apps
The Information Commissioner’s Office has a recap of findings from an international survey: An international project looking at websites and apps used by children has raised concerns over the personal information collected. The project raised concerns about 41% of the 1,494 websites and apps considered, particularly around how much personal information was collected and how…