John P. Martin reports: Lower Merion School District employees activated the web cameras and tracking software on laptops they gave to high school students about 80 times in the past two school years, snapping nearly 56,000 images that included photos of students, pictures inside their homes and copies of the programs or files running on…
Category: Youth & Schools
Korean Curfew Imposed on Juvenile Gamers Uses National ID Number
Justin Kwong writes: The government of Korea announced last week that it would seek to cut off or dramatically slow young gamers’ Internet access between Midnight and 8:00 AM in an effort to cut down on incidents of addiction and other harms associated with extended MMO sessions. This news quickly made headlines around the world…
Privacy of kids’ records debated
Chris Casteel reports: It’s not just grades and test scores anymore. It’s educational data. And it comes in many varieties to help educators, students and parents measure academic growth and achievement in the nation’s schools. […] Joel R. Reidenberg, a law professor at Fordham University and a former local school board member in New Jersey,…
People Want Strong Punishments for Privacy Violations
A study by Chris Hoofnagle was in the news last week because it suggests that young people do care about privacy more than some other studies or Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook would have us believe. Dan Solove comments on another aspect of the study: People believe that privacy violations should be punished — and quite…