The Straits Times reports: Indiana sued Chinese-owned short-video sharing app TikTok on Wednesday over allegations that it is deceiving users about China’s access to their data and exposing children to mature content. The office of Indiana Attorney-General Todd Rokita, a Republican, said the popular app, owned by ByteDance, violates the state’s consumer protection laws by…
Category: Youth & Schools
Meta Announces New Privacy Measures to Protect Teen Users’ Privacy
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On November 21, 2022, Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) announced updated practices designed to protect the privacy of young people on Facebook and Instagram, including default privacy settings for new accounts, measures to limit unwanted interactions with adult users, and a tool to limit the spread of teens’ intimate images online. Beginning on November…
WI: Former student sues Middleton-Cross Plains district for defamation, privacy violation
Ed Treleven reports: A former Middleton High School student said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the district defamed him and violated his privacy rights in January by sending a mass text message to parents and other students naming him as someone believed to have brought a gun to the school. The lawsuit, filed in…
Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media for ‘worrisome behavior’
Mila Koumpilova reports: Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media posts for signs they might engage in violence on campus or harm themselves so that school staff — and in some cases police — can intervene. A Canada-based company the district hired started scouring public posts for threats and “cries for help” last month….