Dan Hardy reports: A group of Lower Merion and Harriton High School parents will meet tonight to discuss ways to derail the possibility that a federal lawsuit over laptop spying could lead to a lengthy and expensive class-action case against their district. Bryn Mawr resident Michael Boni, one of the organizers, said yesterday: “We have…
Category: Youth & Schools
Teen accused of blackmailing students for sex on Facebook sentenced to 15 years
Sarah Platt reports: A New Berlin teen who pleaded no contest blackmailing his classmates for sex through Facebook was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison. 19-year-old Anthony Stancl apologized during sentencing, saying he has learned to understand what his victims went through. Stancl was accused of posing as a girl on Facebook and tricking…
Another twist in “webcamgate:” was the student’s laptop “missing?”
New revelations in The Philadelphia Inquirer hint that there may have been an innocent explanation for why the Lower Merion School District reportedly activated a webcam while the laptop was in the student’s home. On the same day that a court issued a temporary restraining order that bars the district from reactivating the remote security…
ContactPoint: £224m national children’s database ‘is not stable’, officials admit
Andrew Hough and Martin Beckford report: Contactpoint, the £224 million computer system designed to protect young people, is a “frustrating” database and not “user friendly” for local authorities, internal documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show. Officials at one council involved in the system’s development expressed concerns about its operations and accuracy in…