Jane Fae Ozimek reports: Did the Department of Education (DoE) – or Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), as it was then known – knowingly break the law in its establishment of the ContactPoint database? The instant answer is: we don’t know. However, a history of excuses, delay and avoidance of awkward questions is starting to…
Category: Youth & Schools
Anonymous litigation by juveniles: dissent in Jacob Doe v. Kamehameha Schools
I freely admit I’m a huge fan of Chief Judge Kozinski, particularly when he’s dissenting from a majority opinion that concerns surveillance or other privacy issues. In this case, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had declined to rehear a case en banc. At issue is the right of juvenile plaintiffs to file a…
Do we want the next generation to grow up comfortable with being tracked?
Irene North is a kindred spirit when it comes to concerns about whether we are raising our children to be comfortable with being tracked. In a new commentary on Daily Censored, she writes, in part: Since the end of WWII, every child in America was taught to hate the phrase “papers please,” that spying…
Rutgers suicide case poses test for NJ privacy law
I was somewhat surprised that I hadn’t seen more media coverage here of a recent statement by the attorney for one of the two Rutgers students charged in Tyler Clementi’s suicide that the video had not been streamed or viewed by others. After all, if they did not stream the video, that could knock…