David Looby reports: New Ross district councillor Bridín Murphy has appealed to Co Wexford politicians to not post photos of themselves with pupils, having received a complaint from a parent on the matter. Speaking at the May New Ross Municipal District meeting, Cllr Murphy said: “On the issue of child protection I have noticed in…
Category: Youth & Schools
Nationwide push to require social media age verification raises questions about privacy, industry standards
Tonya Riley reports: Lawmakers in Washington and in statehouses around the country are seeking to compel tech companies to prove the age of their users, part of a growing national effort to better protect young children from the harms of the internet. But requiring age-verifying technology to keep teenagers away from potentially harmful content online…
Central NY man hacked local middle-schoolers’ SnapChat photos and tried to extort them, police say
Elizabeth Doran reports: A 24-year-old Van Buren man has been accused of extorting Central New York children after he hacked into their social media and stole naked photos of them, police said. The man targeted kids attending Pine Grove Middle School in the East Syracuse Minoa School district, police said. Police, however, said they believe…
FTC Proposes Blanket Prohibition Preventing Facebook from Monetizing Youth Dat
A huge proposal from the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission proposed changes to the agency’s 2020 privacy order with Facebook after alleging that the company has failed to fully comply with the order, misled parents about their ability to control with whom their children communicated through its Messenger Kids app, and misrepresented the access it…