Well, we knew this was coming… David Kravets reports: A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip. Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in the fall. The ID badge has…
Category: Youth & Schools
Parents, Teens, and Online Privacy
From the latest Pew Internet report: Most parents of teenagers are concerned about what their teenage children do online and how their behavior could be monitored by others. Some parents are taking steps to observe, discuss, and check up on their children’s digital footprints. A new survey of 802 parents and their teens shows that:…
Lawsuit Against Google for Scanning Minors’ Emails without Consent
Ah yes, because we needed yet another potential class action lawsuit against Google. Melissa Maalouf writes: On 11/15/12, a class action complaint was filed on behalf of a 16-year old child against Google, alleging that Google scans emails sent by minors for advertising purposes, which is in violation of federal and state laws (see A.K. v….
UK: Personal details of eight million children are on secret database without their parents’ knowledge
Steve Nolan reports: A huge ‘Big Brother’ style database containing details of around eight million schoolchildren is being compiled without the knowledge of their parents. IT systems specialists are creating the database – including such information as a child’s age, sex, and academic records – which can be shared among officials from other agencies such…