Jed Boal reports: You must prove your age to play Utah Youth Soccer. However, some parents fear the current policy puts their kids’ identities at risk. It’s not fair when a 16-year-old steps onto the soccer field to play against the 12-year-olds. So, the Utah Youth Soccer Association scans birth certificates into a restricted database…
Category: Youth & Schools
Lower Merion’s headaches mount
Not only is the Lower Merion School District garnering increasing negative media coverage as new data emerges about the extent to which it used a webcam feature to take and store digital images of students in their homes and as an employee pleads the Fifth Amendment, but it seems that Lower Merion’s own insurance company…
Lower Merion report: Web cams snapped 56,000 images
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…
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…