Re-posting this as it was lost in the DNS change: Melinda Deslatte of AP reports that the Louisiana state education board is spending up to $1 million to create a new identification system for public school students that doesn’t use Social Security numbers. Read more on The Republic.
Category: Youth & Schools
MD: Attorney General Gansler Secures Settlement from Snapchat, Inc.
Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that he has secured a settlement from Snapchat, Inc., over alleged deceptive trade practices and violations of federal laws intended to protect children’s privacy online. The mobile application by the same name, which is popular among teens and pre-teens, is used on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile…
Ca: Cyberbullying law would let police ‘remotely hack into computers, mobile devices, or cars’
Justin Ling reports: OTTAWA — The Harper government’s new cyberbullying legislation includes little-noticed provisions that would allow police to remotely gain entry to computers and track cellphone users’ movements, privacy experts warn. As a result of the revelations of the vast foreign and domestic surveillance programs run by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the…
17 Student Groups Pen Open Letters on the Toxicity of Mass Surveillance to Academic Freedom
April Glaser writes: Students are rising up and fighting to protect our Internet. In response to our call to action, seventeen university groups from across the United States have published open letters about the real chilling effects mass surveillance is having right now on academic freedom and life on campus. Read more on EFF. I…