Eric Nicholson reports that the use of tracking devices in Texas schools continues to expand: San Antonio’s Northside ISD, which became the focus of national controversy when an intensely evangelical high school sophomore refused to wear her RFID-equipped student ID because it was the Mark of the Beast, is not the first school district to track…
Category: Youth & Schools
Lawsuit over classroom drug search taken to highest court
Claudette Riley reports: [..] The Burlisons, with help from the Rutherford Institute of Virginia, brought a lawsuit against Springfield Public Schools and the Greene County Sheriff’s Office that also named Superintendent Norm Ridder, Sheriff Jim Arnott and Central Principal Ron Snodgrass. The suit alleged Mizer’s Fourth Amendment rights against “unlawful search and seizure” were violated….
Judge scrutinizes Facebook deal to end privacy lawsuit over ads
Dan Levine reports: Child rights advocates tried to convince a U.S. judge on Friday that a Facebook (FB.O) legal settlement did not go far enough to keep content created by minors out of the hands of advertisers. […] At a hearing on Friday, Children’s Advocacy Institute attorney Robert Fellmeth told Seeborg that no minors should…
MA privacy bill seeks to protect students as data shifts to the cloud
Colleen Quinn reports: Parents and technology experts asked lawmakers Thursday to protect children’s privacy as school districts contemplate using cloud technology that would store vital student data. Massachusetts is one of five states willing to participate in the development and pilot testing of inBloom, a Gates Foundation initiative aimed at helping schools simplify computer systems…