Rainey Reitman of EFF writes: It’s a very good day for Internet freedom – a controversial, anti-privacy data retention mandate is notably absent from the child protection bill recently introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith. SOPA-author Lamar Smith had previously introduced H.R. 1981, which would have mandated that ISPs collect and maintain data on Internet users not suspected of…
Category: Youth & Schools
Oklahoma education advocates demand privacy for waiver candidates
Carrie Coppemoll provides an update on the Oklahoma FERPA mess I’ve blogged about several times: The state Education Department identified students asking for graduation waivers by numbers and school districts instead of names after a privacy dust up earlier in June. At its June 5 meeting, the Board of Education named students who requested…
Delaware lawmakers approve social media privacy bill for college students and applicants
Randall Chase reports: State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill prohibiting universities and colleges in Delaware from requiring that students or applicants for enrollment provide their social networking login information. The bill, which unanimously passed the Senate shortly after midnight Saturday, also prohibits schools and universities from requesting that a student or applicant log…
NC: Clinton third-grader strip-searched after being accused of stealing
Okay, it’s bad enough that students get strip-searched in schools without seemingly having any right to refuse or to demand a parent or lawyer. But for the building administrator to then issue a statement on the incident that names the student and reveals additional details about the student and his record, well, DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND…