Jennifer Radcliffe of the Houston Chronicle reports that RFID tags for tracking students is in use the Spring and Santa Fe school districts. Spring has been steadily expanding the system since December 2008. Currently, about 13,500 of the district’s 36,000 students have the upgraded badges, which are just slightly thicker than the average ID tag…
Category: Youth & Schools
Restoring American Privacy
Wendy Kaminer writes: A recent string of gay teen suicides, brought to light by Tyler Clementi’s leap off the George Washington bridge, is creating a “teachable moment” for gay rights activists, today’s Washington Post declares. I hope they’re right, and the tragic deaths of Clementi and others will help de-legitimize discrimination based on sexual orientation or…
Teens Want More Privacy Online Too
Austin Carr writes: Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg suggested that privacy was no longer a social norm. “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people,” the Facebook CEO said at the Crunchie awards in January. However, a new Zogby poll shows that younger Internet…
Prosecutor’s office subpoenas University e-mails in Clementi case
When people require law enforcement to comply with the law, they may be accused of “not cooperating” with authorities. In today’s installment, anonymous people in the prosecutor’s office semi-smear Rutgers University for upholding their legal obligations. Mary Diduch reports: The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office has subpoenaed the University for e-mails regarding University first-year student Tyler…