Ann-Elise Henzl reports: In an effort to prevent fraud at day care centers, the state will install fingerprint scanners to track the children who are attending. The state says the system will allow it to monitor attendance, and make sure the state is only reimbursing day care facilities for services actually provided. […] Patrick Marley…
Category: Youth & Schools
LA: Rapides School Board rejects student fingerprinting
Karina Vailes reports: The Rapides Parish School Board has rejected a policy that could have asked students to be fingerprinted and undergo in-depth physiological tests based on a new state policy. The item on the biometric information, which is commonly used to identify individuals in groups under surveillance, was deleted from the School Board agenda…
Publishing child sex abuse victim’s name on the web was not a privacy violation
Evan Brown summarizes Doe v. Fankhauser, 2010 WL 4702295 (N.D. Ohio, November 30, 2010) Plaintiff Jane Doe was the victim of physical and sexual abuse when she was a minor. In the criminal case against the perpetrator, Doe’s name was redacted, and she and her family were allegedly assured that her name would not be…
Europe tells Britain to justify itself over fingerprinting children in schools
Bruno Waterfield reports: The European Commission has demanded Britain justifies the widespread and routine fingerprinting of children in schools because of “significant concerns” that the policy breaks EU privacy laws. The commissioner is also concerned that parents are not allowed legal redress after one man was told he could not challenge the compulsory fingerprinting, without…