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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
Lawmakers introduce draft bill to prevent children from being tracked online
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…
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…