From the Phoenix FBI, originally published June 14, 2022: PHOENIX, AZ—Now that schools across Arizona are on summer break and young people have more unsupervised time online, the FBI Phoenix Field Office is warning parents and caregivers about an increase in incidents involving sextortion of young children. Across the country, the FBI is receiving an…
Category: Youth & Schools
Mandatory Student Spyware Is Creating a Perfect Storm of Human Rights Abuses
Daly Barnett of EFF writes: Spyware apps were foisted on students at the height of the Covid-19 lockdowns. Today, long after most students have returned to in-person learning, those apps are still proliferating, and enabling an ever-expanding range of human rights abuses. In a recent Center for Democracy and Technology report, 81 percent of teachers said their schools…
Met police profiling children ‘on a large scale’, documents show
Wil Crisp and Vikram Dodd report: Metropolitan police documents say the force has been collecting “children’s personal data” from social media sites as part of a project to carry out “profiling on a large scale”. The Met says the scheme, known as Project Alpha, helps fight serious violence, with the intelligence gathered identifying offenders and securing the…
DEL: Medical privacy bill threatens parental rights, GOP reps say
Charles Meggenson reports: All 15 Republican state representatives have taken a stand against a bill they say is designed to usurp parental authority. House Bill 400, sponsored by Rep. Krista Griffith, D-Fairfax, would allow dependents on insurance policies – adults and children – to receive “confidential sensitive health care services” without notifying the policyholder. Read…