Social networking sites may soon be prohibited from posting certain personal information about minors in California. A bill approved 25-4 Thursday by the state Senate would require the sites to remove the option allowing users to publicly post their home address or phone number if users say they are under the age of 18. The…
Category: Youth & Schools
Britain: Details of hundreds of students handed to CIA
Odd that we should have to read about this on the World Socialist Web Site, but an article by Jordan Shilton provides more details on a situation reported on this site a few weeks ago (here). If this were a Christian group or a Jewish group, would we see more outrage and coverage? The details…
Webcamgate: Filing states student broke rules and had no expectation of privacy
Derrick Nunnally reports that the Lower Merion School District IT coordinator is firing back against Harriton High School sophomore Blake Robbins’ lawsuit. Even in his own home, the Harriton High School sophomore had “no legitimate expectation of privacy” from the camera on his school-issued laptop, information systems coordinator Carol Cafiero contended in a court filing…
Soccer parents fear identity theft from birth certificates
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…