As long-time readers know, this blog has always taken the position that celebrities are still entitled to privacy. And with that in mind, this site has often avoided posting news items about people whose private sex tapes or sensitive information has been uploaded to the Internet without their knowledge or consent. Not surprisingly, the recent exposure…
Category: Youth & Schools
Ca: Staff didn’t breach student’s privacy by reading text, judge rules
Hannah Spray reports: If anyone did something wrong when a Prince Albert student’s phone was seized and used in a stolen car investigation, it was the police – not school staff, according to a judge’s decision on a lawsuit filed by the student’s family. The grandparents of the student, who was 12 years old at…
Principals Push for More Safeguards for Student Privacy
Denisa R. Superville reports: With rising concern over student privacy ushered in by the increasing use of technology in schools—from apps in the classrooms, cloud services for storage, and other digital products that collect students’ personal information—the National Association of Secondary School Principals released today a set of recommendations to help safeguard student privacy. The recommendations,…
OK: OU President Boren responds to lawsuit, orders release of parking ticket information
What a difference a day lawsuit makes. Paris Burris reports: OU President David Boren has released a statement ordering OU parking ticket information be available to the public and the media in response to a lawsuit against the university led by Daily staff member Joey Stipek. Read more on The Oklahoma Daily. I had posted and tweeted about…