Jim Forsyth reports: The next time children in some elementary schools in the state of Texas try to sneak extra french fries onto their tray in the cafeteria line, the eye in the sky will be watching them. Using a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the schools in San Antonio are…
Category: Youth & Schools
Disney settles online privacy complaint for $3 million
Dawn C. Chmielewski and Alex Pham of the L.A. Times report: Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges that online virtual worlds once operated by its Playdom games division violated federal rules designed to protect the safety and privacy of children younger than 13 on the Internet. The Federal Trade…
Children of Guanajuato, Mexico in Biometric D-Base
Alexander Weinstock reports: Biometrics is penetrating deeper into our lives than ever before. Next-generation passports with stored fingerprint data are being issued in almost every country. Russia is moving toward a universal identification card, supposed to arrive sometime next year, which we have covered before. However, of all countries, Mexico is really taking a step…
University of Illinois appeals privacy ruling
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…