Michael Birnbaum reports: Maryland schools will no longer forward scores from a popular vocational test to military recruiters under new legislation that requires high school students to send the information themselves. The test, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, is administered by the military in schools across the country as a public service…
Category: Youth & Schools
Study finds young adults do care about online privacy, despite anecdotes of raunchy photos
Barbara Ortutay of the Associated Press reports: All the dirty laundry younger people seem to air on social networks these days might lead older Americans to conclude that today’s tech-savvy generation doesn’t care about privacy. Such an assumption fits happily with declarations that privacy is dead, as online marketers and social sites such as Facebook…
Webcamgate: Laptops took thousands of images – lawyer
John P. Martin reports: The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district. More than…
Google and Facebook’s illusion of privacy
Bruce Schneier writes: In January Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, declared the age of privacy to be over. A month earlier, Google Chief Eric Schmidt expressed a similar sentiment. Add Scott McNealy’s and Larry Ellison’s comments from a few years earlier, and you’ve got a whole lot of tech CEOs proclaiming the death of privacy…