This is a story that will likely never make national headlines, but it is an instructive incident on student privacy and why parents cannot rely on schools to respect or teach the children about privacy. Elizabeth Doran reports from New York: Two Fayetteville-Manlius parents called on the school board Monday night to notifiy parents whose…
Category: Youth & Schools
School Safety Officers Too Quick To Discipline, NYCLU Says
Surveillance of students and deprivation of the civil liberties that they should enjoy has been a recurring theme on this blog as the Youth and Surveillance categories reflect. In August, I tried to summarize some of my concerns in a post, “U.S. schools: grooming students for a surveillance state,” but there have been other…
Mother sues Tyra Banks after teen daughter appears on show as ‘sex addict’
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….
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…