Juliana Gruenwald reports: While most lawmakers agree that businesses should be required to follow special rules when dealing with children’s personal information online, a House Energy and Commerce panel was more divided during a Wednesday hearing over whether Congress needs to craft special protections for teens. Last month, the Federal Trade Commission issued proposed changes to its…
Category: Youth & Schools
Do your kids know their rights, Tuesday edition
Seen on Law.com: If a police officer enters a party filled with 40 to 50 young people, demands that they line up, and proceeds to sniff the breath of each person to determine if they have consumed alcohol, is this a custodial interrogation requiring Miranda warnings? Yes, according to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. Read more…
It’s for the children, Sunday edition
Michael Morris, a lieutenant with the University Police at California State University-Channel Islands, argues for data mining student activity and accounts to predict – and hopefully prevent – violence or other serious problems. He writes, in part: Many campuses across the country and most in California provide each student with an e-mail address, personal access…
Online Safety, an Ongoing Education
Clarinette, a lawyer and fervent privacy advocate, has a thoughtful post about keeping parents abreast of online safety issues for kids. Over on Fly a Kite, she describes her experience at a school meeting for parents about online privacy. The turnout was disappointing, the materials outdated, and Clarinette writes: Do we know everything? Surely not….