The kind of online impersonation a new California law is intended to address has occurred in Florida, where two teenagers have been arrested. Sarah Pusateri of WINK News reports: Two teenage girls are facing serious charges after they created a fake Facebook page for another student. The page was created in April but deputies didn’t…
Category: Youth & Schools
Pop4Schools, new Big 4 UK school scam
I’ve blogged a number of times about schools indoctrinating students to accept a surveillance state or to have a reduced expectation of privacy or rights. Over on p2pnet.net, John Newton writes about another kind of possible indoctrination: The Big 4’s latest mind-rape program is called Pop4Schools. Under it, British school children will be “given the chance”…
Parental Monitoring Carries Risks
A press release from SchoolSafetyPartners.org was so strongly worded that I held off posting it until I could check into some of its assertions, but after checking, I think it’s worth posting this to alert parents to check more before signing up for any service: MouseMail.com, an anti-sexting and anti-bullying business promoted by stockholder and…
N.J. Town To Vote On Middle School Drug Tests
FourthAmendment.com kindly pointed me to a situation in New Jersey that will be of concern to all those who care about student privacy and civil liberties: A proposal to conduct random drug tests of young students in one New Jersey town is raising some eyebrows. Students at Belvidere Elementary School could be adding drug testing…