Stewart Mitchell reports: Teachers could get the right to search mobile phone content in a bid to clampdown on cyber-bullying under the new Education Bill. The bill was introduced into parliament in January and is now being honed in committees, but education officials are split over the need for Draconian rules that would would enable…
Category: Youth & Schools
Federal judge claims FERPA doesn’t specifically prohibit release of records? Say what?!
Antonio Olivo reports a decision that has me hoping that the University of Illinois appeals: A federal judge has ruled that the University of Illinios is not barred from releasing the names and other information about hundreds of college applicants who appeared on an internal list of well-connected students, part of a legal dispute between…
Cn: Fuzhou University denies privacy breach
There’s a lot more I’d like to know about the details of this incident, but it sounds like although Fuzhou University denies a privacy breach, their actions really do sound privacy-invasive. China Daily/Asia News Network reports: Students at Fuzhou University have recently received a questionnaire in which they were asked to respond using their real…
Schools rush to fingerprint children before UK Freedom Bill change
Andrea Petrou reports: Fingerprinting of children has got worse, with “more and more schools falling over themselves” to get pupil biometrics, a rights group has told TechEye. Action on Rights for Children (ARCH) is wondering if the rush is because of proposed changes in the Freedom bill. Currently, schools don’t have to ask for parental…