Matthew Heller writes: A Texas teenager has taken a major step toward winning her privacy lawsuit against an assistant middle school principal who searched the contents of her cell phone, finding a nude photo of her. Alexis Mendoza, then an eighth-grader at Kimmel Intermediate School in Spring, Texas, admitted sending the photo to a boy…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Parents flush out cameras from school toilets over privacy fears (updated)
Scott McAngus reports: Two secondary schools in West Lothian are set to be forced to remove CCTV cameras from the pupil toilets after concerns were raised by parents. West Calder High and Whitburn Academy have cameras covering the sink areas in toilets, but West Lothian Council is reviewing its guidelines following “a small number of…
Two Kids’ Social Networking Sites Reported to Feds for Privacy Problems
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…
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…