Amazing what a little bad press can do. Following a press release from SchoolSafetyPartners.org about MouseMail, a social networking sites for kids with parental controls, the company has changed its privacy policy. Here’s an updated press release from SchoolSafetyPartners.org: MouseMail.com, the social network for kids that parents can monitor, has rewritten its terms of service…
Category: Youth & Schools
FL: School drug testing policy could advance
Erin Kourkounis reports that yet another school district is moving closer to greater surveillance of students and invasion of their privacy: On Tuesday, the Escambia County School Board could move one step closer to implementing the random drug testing of students. In a workshop Friday, board members and district officials discussed the proposed policy, which…
Parents claim school violated 1st Amendment right to raise child
Kelly Dame reports on case in Michigan: The parents of a Midland Public Schools student have sued the district and two employees in federal court, alleging their right to privacy under the First Amendment has been violated. Michael and Sandra Reardon filed suit against the district, H.H. Dow High counselor Kurt Faust and school employee…
New security system to protect Detroit students from sex offenders raises privacy concerns
First the roll-out of yet another “for the children’s safety” measure, as described by ABC News in Detroit: The Detroit Public School system is launching a new security system designed to keep sex offenders out of the city’s schools. The system works by running instant background checks against sex offender registries and then issuing ID…