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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
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…