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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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….
ACLU-PA settles cell phone search suit against school district
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…