Natasha Singer reports that the FTC’s proposal to strengthen COPPA is drawing a mixed reaction. The proposed changes could greatly increase the need for children’s sites to obtain parental permission for some practices that are now popular — like using cookies to track users’ activities around the Web over time. Marketers argue that the rule…
Category: Youth & Schools
Georgia forbids access to student public hearings, records
Jamie Gottlieb reports: The University’s Office of Student Conduct has closed all formal student disciplinary hearings to the public based on Georgia House Bill 397, which they believe has overturned a 1993 Georgia Supreme Court opinion that stated all student judicial hearings and records are open to the public. Beau Seagraves, associate director of OSC,…
Editorial: School computer rules would delete civil rights
An editorial in the Fairfield Citizen includes: … in its stampede to secure federal money to protect students from both pornography and each other, the Fairfield Board of Education seems to have given little if any thought to the civil rights of students and their parents. Proposed revisions to the schools’ Internet policy would include not only school…
Supreme Court of Canada upholds children’s privacy, allows cyberbullying victim to proceed anonymously
David T. Fraser writes: The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in AB v. Bragg Communications, 2012 SCC 46 has just been released and the Court has allowed the appeal in part. The decision supports the right of a child victim of cyber-bullying to proceed in the civil courts anonymously. Read more on Canadian Privacy Law Blog.