Tish Kraft reports: Against the advice of its own attorney, the Redding Record Searchlight, a Scripps newspaper, published the name of a 7-year-old boy who was near death when sheriff’s deputies rescued him from a week of torture, though it knew the boy’s name was confidential and should have been protected, the boy’s guardian at…
Category: Youth & Schools
AU: Fingerprinting at schools heavy-handed: parents
Cassie White reports: A New South Wales school has moved to reassure parents that new student fingerprint scanners cannot be hacked into and no personal information will be stored in the system. Gosford’s Henry Kendall High School is introducing a biometric system which assigns each student a number by creating a unique code based on…
Student Credit Cards: $83 Million Dollar Pay Off
Lyn O’Shaughnessy provides some interesting statistics on how much schools are earning by providing student info to credit card issuers: Do university administrators feel guilty about encouraging their students to sign up for credit cards that provided kickbacks to their schools? […] Last year credit card companies issued more than $83 million to universities, alumni associations and…
Women secretly filmed on Dalhousie campus
Dalhousie University security staff say someone is secretly filming women on the Studley Campus and posting the videos to an online sharing site. In an email sent to students Monday afternoon, Mike Burns, director of security, said women were “surreptitiously captured on video.” “The videos were taken without consent of the subjects and appear to…