Vindu Goel reports: Facebook has loosened its privacy rules for teenagers as a debate swirls over online threats to children from bullies and sexual predators. The move, announced on Wednesday, allows teenagers to post status updates, videos and images that can be seen by anyone, not just their friends or people who know their friends. Read…
Category: Youth & Schools
Family sues Palo Alto school district, alleging breach of son’s medical privacy and discrimination
Palo Alto Online reports on a lawsuit stemming from allegations that a teacher improperly disclosed a student’s confidential health information to parents of a second student, resulting in the district attempting to place the first student in another district for fear of health concerns for the second student. As a result of the teacher’s actions,…
Group Presses for Safeguards on the Personal Data of Schoolchildren
Natasha Singer reports: A leading children’s advocacy group is challenging the educational technology software industry, an estimated $8 billion market, to develop national safeguards for the personal data collected about students from kindergarten through high school. In a letter sent last week to 16 educational technology vendors — including Google Apps for Education, Samsung School,…
Judge tosses part of lawsuit over Facebook bikini photo
A painful lesson on “no reasonable expectation of privacy,” but will this serve as a cautionary tale for our youth, as district personnel may have intended? I doubt it. A judge tossed out parts of a lawsuit filed against the Fayette County School District after an administrator displayed a student’s bikini picture during a seminar…