The Associated Press reports that U. Illinois will appeal a recent court ruling discussed previously on this blog: The University of Illinois has appealed a court decision that found the school was wrong to use a federal privacy law to withhold the names of college applicants involved in an admissions scandal. The university filed its…
Category: Youth & Schools
California Family Claims H.S. Principal Went Ballistic
Iulia Filip reports: A student says high school officials had police arrest and interrogate him, then suspended him for 15 days for logging onto a Facebook page that parodied the school’s principal. He says he didn’t create the parody, and never logged onto the Facebook page with school computers, or during school hours on or…
How Teens Understand Privacy
Danah Boyd writes: In the fall, Alice Marwick and I went into the field to understand teens’ privacy attitudes and practices. We’ve blogged some of our thinking since then but we’re currently working on turning our thinking into a full-length article. We are lucky enough to be able to workshop our ideas at an upcoming…
Deal Reached in Rutgers Case
Sean Gardiner reports: A former Rutgers University student who spied on fellow freshman Tyler Clementi as he had a dorm-room encounter with another man was allowed to enter a program Friday that could help her avoid criminal charges. Molly Wei appeared in court in New Brunswick, N.J., where it was announced she would be accepted…