Christian Boone reports A McDonough woman has sued television personality Tyra Banks, claiming the former supermodel featured her then-15-year-old daughter — without parental consent — on a 2009 show about sex addiction. Beverly McClendon, a licensed social worker, according to public records, said her daughter answered an open call placed on Banks’ website last October….
Category: Youth & Schools
Webcamgate case resolved. Badly
Jennifer Abel writes about the recent Lower Merion settlement and case: So what happened to the school administrators, to McGinley, Matsko and the others who spied on teens at home, then lied about the extent of it? Nothing. No jobs lost and no financial consequences, either – they’re not responsible for the $610,000 payout. The…
Is the Family Education Rights Privacy Act a protective shield or an excuse?
The Freedom of Information Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) recently urged Congress to revise the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Their proposal, if adopted, would likely water down privacy protections for both students and parents. The resolution states: Whereas, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, called “FERPA,” was…
Reply, not Reply All: Friday edition
The graduate dean at the University of Missouri at Columbia mistakenly sent to a listserv for graduate students this week an e-mail reply that referred to what he perceived as a student’s “mental distress,” forcing him to follow up Thursday with a broad apology for the privacy breach. In the e-mail apologizing to Missouri’s grad…