Mayra Pertossi of the Associated Press reports: Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced collection of DNA from people who might have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago — even if they don’t want to know their birth parents. Rights activists hope that the new law…
Category: Youth & Schools
Ie: School in row over CCTV cameras in bathrooms
From the Irish Examiner: A Kildare school is at the centre of a dispute over CCTV cameras in the bathrooms. It follows a walk out by students at Scoile Mhurie in Clane in protest over the installation fo (sic) the cameras in the school toilets. The board of managment (sic) at the school is insisting…
Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Restrictions on RFID
Claire Swedberg reports: Rhode Island’s governor, Donald Carcieri (R), has vetoed the latest effort by the state’s legislature to pass a bill limiting how RFID technology would be employed to track students at schools and school functions, as well as vehicles as they are tracked by E-ZPass or other toll-collection systems. With his veto of…
ContactPoint database of 11 million children’s details to go ahead despite security fears
Martin Beckford and Graeme Paton report: Ministers are pressing ahead with the introduction of ContactPoint to every local authority in the country after claiming that a pilot project has proved a success. They say the long-delayed £224 project will make England’s 11million young people safer by providing a single register that can be used by…