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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
Student identities revealed in harassment files sent out by UGA
The student newspaper at University of Georgia , Red & Black, has an item written by Mimi Ensley that caught my eye. It deals with an open records request on sexual harassment investigations filed by a woman who was dutifully sent all of the records. But they were not redacted at all. And according to…
Nova Scotia CA Favors Transparency Over Youth Privacy in Facebook Defamation Case
Dan Michaluk writes: The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has just issued a decision in which it affirmed a decision to deny a potential defamation claimant the use of a pseudonym (initials) in pursuing a defamation claim.The appeal was brought by a 15-year-old girl who has taken issue with an individual who created a fake…