The Swedish government has ignored the advice of Sweden’s Council on Legislation (Lagrådet) and proposed the introduction of drug tests on children below the age of 15. “Early intervention against young abusers is absolutely crucial,” said Beatrice Ask, Sweden’s justice minister. In a previous ruling, the council weighed the invasion of personal integrity occasioned by…
Category: Youth & Schools
UCLU apologise for releasing ISoc and RUMS Isoc personal information
Andrew de Castro reports: James Hodgson, UCLU [University College London Union] Student Activities Officer, admitted that “mistakes were made” when mobile phone numbers and email addresses of Islamic Society and Medical Islamic Society members were released to Anti-Terror Police, without a legal requirement to do so. The data was released in connection with the alleged…
Parents upset after principal posts students’ bad grades on his office door
From WKOW in Wisconsin: A middle school principal in Wisconsin is under investigation after he posted the names of students with failing grades on his door. Marshfield Middle School Principal Dave Schoepke posted a list with student’s name, their class, teacher and their F grade for all to see. […] The superintendent says the principal…
Privacy flags raise concern for graduate students
Kate Perkowski reports: Undergraduate students are not the only ones concerned with personal information available through UK’s [University of Kentucky’s] online people search — now, graduate students are voicing their concern, too. Members of UK’s graduate school have recently voiced concern about their information like home address and home telephone number being available on the…