The independent and international impartial Biometrics Institute representing users, vendors and researchers in the biometric field has warned Governments that extra care must be taken when Governments use children’s biometrics for border protection and other purposes. The Biometrics Institute which began in Australia but is now the chief independent biometrics body in the world was…
Category: Youth & Schools
CT: Middletown school board to revise search and seizure policy
Brian Zahn reports: The Middletown Board of Education voted Tuesday night to revise its search and seizure policy to reflect that only the school panel can vote to allow drug-sniffing dogs access to the high school. Superintendent Pat Charles presented the policy to the board at its Tuesday meeting, after adding a “reasonable suspicion” clause requirement before staff can…
Del. AG announces four privacy bills
Legal News Line reports: Delaware state legislators and Attorney General Matt Denn on Friday announced four bills that he says will help strengthen privacy laws when it comes to the Internet and social media. … The bills would tackle four different areas of online activity including: a Victim Online Privacy Act, a Delaware Online Privacy and…
House Education still has a ways to go on data privacy bill
Todd Engdahl reports: A rare Friday session of the House Education Committee aired parent concerns about the privacy of student educational data, but committee decisions on a key data bill won’t come until next week. Senate Bill 15-173 passed the Senate unanimously more than a month ago, and since then a lot of behind-the-scenes lobbying…