Martine Ward reports: Worldwide charity Amnesty International has called for Indonesia to ban plans to introduce mandatory pregnancy and virginity tests on high school girls in the country. This week, it was reported that the head of a secondary school in Magetan, East Java, had forced pupils to undergo the tests before they received a…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Peeping tom student filmed flatmates undressing
A university student secretly installed a video camera in the bathroom of a house in Bath to film his female housemates undressing. Peeping tom Edward Macey will now be listed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years and have to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to three counts of…
New software traces illegal downloads on campus
Sam Raffield reports: VSU has new software that traces student use of illegal downloading systems to individual computers. Over this past summer, “Ares,” a new P2P program/protocol became popular among college students. Ares allows its users to evade school network controls that limit P2P use. The University System of Georgia increased efforts to identify the…
Big Brother’s fingers reach deep into college files
Jeffrey Piccola reports: …. The potential for identity theft, discrimination and other misuse in the wake of one lost laptop or one unwitting employee error is mind-boggling. It also is why the Senate Education Committee and leaders in the higher education community have called upon the state Department of Education to suspend its latest student data…