From ACLU’s blog: …. it’s an unfortunate fact that many school districts wrongly believe that if a student is in trouble for a minor offense, they have the right to conduct a fishing expedition in order to find evidence of other wrongdoing. Regardless of whether or not a student is permitted to have a phone…
Category: Youth & Schools
Big Brother in Iowa? School District Monitors Kids’ Lunch Choices
Jana Winter reports: An Iowa school district’s lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria — prompting some parents to claim it’s an unhealthy case of “Big Brother.” The Ankeny Community School District is maintaining a…
UK: Children’s rights group threatens ICO with judicial review
Jane Fae Ozimek reports: Children’s Rights Group ARCH has threatened to take the Information Commissioner to a judicial review after the data regulator declined to take enforcement action the Youth Justice Board for unlawfully collecting and distributing data. According to Terri Dowty, Director of ARCH, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) is continuing to process data…
Invading a child’s privacy and lying about her to discredit her father? How low can you go?
Maggie Michael of Associated Press reports that Mohammed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.N. nuclear chief, has accused President Hosni Mubarak’s government of posting Facebook photos of ElBaradei’s daughter in swimsuits and at events where alcohol was served in an attempt to discredit him. Michael reports, in part: The more than 30…