The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania announced today that it has settled a lawsuit filed in May alleging that the Tunkhannock Area School District (Wyoming County) illegally searched a student’s cell phone, punished her for storing semi-nude pictures of herself on the device, and then referred her case for criminal prosecution to the district…
Category: Youth & Schools
ACLU-NC and EFF Call for Answers About Federal Program Tracking Preschoolers
The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are calling for answers to critical privacy and safety questions that loom over a controversial federal program to track preschoolers with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips at George Miller III Head Start program in Richmond, California. In an open letter to the U.S….
UK: More people recognizing the down side of surveilling students
It is encouraging to see so many people starting to challenge the extensive use of surveillance in schools. Gavin Atchison reports: Half of York’s secondary schools have been filming pupils on CCTV without telling parents, sparking condemnation from privacy campaigners. An investigation by The Press has found that while all ten secondaries in the city…
UAE: Children required to get ID card
Binsal Abdul Kader and Rayeesa Absal report: Children under 15 years of age should register for ID cards as per a new decision of Emirates Identity Authority, a government spokesman told Gulf News on Wednesday. Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) Director General Dr Ali Al Khoury said: “Now ID card is mandatory for children under 15.”…