Cecilia Kang reports: House lawmakers on Friday will introduce the draft of a privacy bill aimed at protecting children by blocking Web sites from tracking the young users of the Internet. Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) co-authored the “Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011,” which will significantly strengthen and update online…
Category: Youth & Schools
Child’s right to privacy in danger if redacted documents were publishable, court says
A child’s right to privacy as guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights, coupled with the ease with which the redacted information could be recovered by inexpensive software, meant that an injunction preventing the information being published should be imposed, the Court said. The blacked-out information was contained in Greek court papers that determined…
‘Liking’ ads leads to lawsuit
Herald News Service reports: Facebook Inc., the social-networking site, was sued for not getting permission to display notices that minors “like” Facebook advertisers’ products. The lawsuit seeks classaction status on behalf of Facebook users in New York state under the age of 18 who had “their names or likenesses used on a Facebook feed or…
Woman Accused in Rutgers Case Wants Record Expunged
The Associated Press reports: The former college student charged with invasion of privacy in the Rutgers webcam suicide case is seeking to have her criminal record erased. The Homes News Tribune of East Brunswick reports court records show Molly Wei has applied to enter the pretrial intervention program. The program allows nonviolent offenders to expunge…