Adam Wagner reports that a UK judge recently held that public interest warranted revealing the name of a Council involved in child protection charges, even if there was some privacy risk to the children: Coventry City Council v X, Y and Z (Care Proceedings: Costs: Identification of Local Authority) [2010] EWHC B22 (Fam) –Read judgment…
Category: Youth & Schools
Do students need more online privacy education?
Dennis Carter writes: Privacy advocates say the rules regarding internet privacy and appropriate online behavior should be stressed at colleges and universities, especially among incoming freshmen, in the wake of a Rutgers University student’s suicide after a video of him having sex was posted on the web without his consent. Read more on eSchool News….
LAUSD to use fingerprint scans for school lunches
Connie Llanos reports: Los Angeles Unified officials hope a new plan allowing students to purchase school meals with a simple press of a finger will save money, speed up long cafeteria lines and reduce the headaches caused by forgotten lunch money. But the controversial finger scan ID system, already tested and dropped by at least…
NZ: Teachers get power to search their pupils
Speaking of grooming students for a surveillance state in the name of “safety,” Joanne Carroll and Rachel Grunwell report that New Zealand will let teachers search students: Teachers are to get explicit powers to search children – potentially even strip-search them – for weapons. The Government is to release draft guidelines applying to the classroom, schoolyard…