Brock Parker reports: School officials in Brookline are evaluating district procedures regarding the release of student data after police discovered a Brighton man accused of secretly videotaping people inside their homes also had copies of the student directories for two local schools. The directories for the kindergarten through 8th grade Devotion School and Brookline High…
Category: Youth & Schools
Facebook stalker a 12-year-old girl
Ben Grubb reports: A mother’s fear that her 12-year-old daughter was being stalked by a paedophile on Facebook sparked an in-depth, almost month-long investigation involving the Australian Federal Police. But police have been left dumbfounded by the discovery that the person who harassed and sent pornographic images to the girl via the site was another…
States Continue to Develop Student Tracking Systems
Michelle Cormier writes: The State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) group released a survey of student data systems in 44 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday. The report found that all of the states and the District of Columbia have at least one student unit record system and 29 states have between two…
Echometrix agrees to stop collecting and selling kids’ chats
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced a settlement that stops the software company Echometrix from gathering information from children’s private online conversations and offering it to paying marketers. EPIC had complained to the FTC about Echometrix last year and the Dept. of Defense had subsequently canceled its contract with Echometrix in light of the complaint….