From the the-road-to-hell-and-all-that dept.: Greta Iverson reports: Bryn Mawr College is under fire for an email intended to promote personal health that ended up offending dozens of students who felt wrongfully targeted for their body type. […] In an apology email to the student body, officials with the school claim to have designed the program…
Category: Youth & Schools
Ca: Teen’s private details disclosed in privacy breach
Ugh, ugh, ugh. Don Plan reports: When Sally picked up an envelope from a government office in Kelowna, she didn’t expect to find the private details of a suicidal teenager inside. Sally (not her real name) is a foster mom who stopped in to collect a one-page form she had to fill out for the…
Draft of President Obama’s Student-Data-Privacy Bill Raises Questions
Benjamin Herold reports: New federal student-data-privacy legislation being crafted by the White House would prohibit education technology vendors from selling student information and directing targeted advertisements at students, but the legislation remains silent on other controversial industry practices, according to documents obtained by Education Week. Since President Barack Obama announced earlier this month that he would seek…
Detention of a minor based on a report from a friend she was suicidal was reasonable – Court
John Wesley Hall points us to an appellate decision in the Seventh Circuit: This minor’s § 1983 suit alleges a Fourth Amendment violation when she was taken to a hospital and subjected to a mental health examination based a report from a school friend that she had attempted to kill herself. The police officer who went…