Jorgen Wouters reports: The owner of two social networking sites intended for children, FBFkids.com (formerly Facebook for Kids.com), has been reported to the Federal Trade Commission by a self-regulating arm of the children’s advertising industry. The Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CARU) referred the owner to the FTC after…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Schools fight biometric consent law
Irena Barker reports: Headteachers are set to incur the wrath of civil liberties campaigners after challenging new laws that would force them to seek permission from both parents to use children’s biometric data. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) claims a new bill forcing them to gain consent would be a “huge bureaucratic…
UT: Alpine cell phone policy prompts school privacy, safety debate
Keeping tabs on what children and teenagers are doing and saying is hard enough for parents — let alone school teachers and administrators. But when it comes to maintaining a safe learning environment, school officials say they try to balance the privacy of individual students with the safety of all. Currently, students at Alpine School…
Federal education officials instruct schools to violate student privacy and trample free speech
Well, okay, maybe that’s not exactly what the headline on The Daily Caller actually says, and I’m quite sure it’s not how the feds would describe their actions, but their attempts to deal with cyberbullying and harassment may ride roughshod over student privacy and speech while imposing more liability on schools. Neil Munro of The…