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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
“Has mommy had abortions?”- school questionnaire sparks outrage
From Russia, with gross disregard for privacy: A federal ministry questionnaire is asking the mothers of Russian schoolchildren if they have had abortions. This and other personal questions have sparked outrage among parents and the general public. Scandal has been growing around controversial questionnaire, entitled “Passport of a Pupil’s Health”, which the Russian Education and…
Are parents the biggest threat to online privacy?
Rory Cellan-Jones blogs: Think you have got your online privacy sorted? Perhaps you’ve made sure that your Facebook settings are super-secure, and that only close friends and family can see the photographs you post on the web. Well, just be thankful you are not a baby, because the biggest threat to your online privacy could…