Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality has banned parents from breaking their children’s privacy, including internet chat records and text messages, the Chongqing Evening News reports. The regulation on the protection of minors was adopted by the municipal legislature on Friday and will go into effect on September 1, when the new semester begins. No institution or…
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De: Hacker arrested for spying on schoolgirls via their own webcams
A man has been arrested for spying on more than 150 girls in their bedrooms by hacking into their computers and using their webcams to watch them, provoking warnings that others will be doing the same thing. The hacker, from the Rhineland area, is suspected of having infected computers with a program enabling him to…
Wis. Supreme Court rules on e-mail privacy (updated)
The Associated Press reports: Wisconsin government employees can safely send personal e-mail messages on their work computers without worrying that they will have to make them public, under a ruling Friday by the state Supreme Court. The court ruled that just because a public employee uses a work computer to send an e-mail, it doesn’t…
Perdue sues MU board, professor
Bill Rosenberger reports: The daughter of state Treasurer John Perdue has sued the Marshall University Board of Governors and her former professor, Laura Wyant, charging that her name and some information about her grades were made public. The civil complaint, filed Friday in the Circuit Court of Cabell County, states on or about Sept. 25,…