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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
Md. law limits military recruitment of high school students
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…