John Ozimek reports: Manchester Airport will be taking legal advice on proposals to send children through its new X-ray scanners. This is a change from its position, reported in The Register yesterday, that they did not believe the images created by the new scanning technology (the slightly unfortunately named Rapiscan) would fall foul of child…
Category: Youth & Schools
Canadians must take more responsibility for online lives: privacy czar
Sarah Schmidt reports: Young Canadians need to “think twice” about how much personal information they post on the Internet and take greater responsibility for how they live their online lives, Canada’s privacy czar warned Tuesday. Noting many people have been fired, missed out on job interviews and academic opportunities for their over-sharing online, Jennifer Stoddart…
D.A. won’t negotiate plea in Tesoro computer hacking case
Scott Martindale reports: Former Tesoro High School student Omar Khan is likely to face a jury trial in an elaborate school burglary and computer hacking case, unless he accepts the plea deal that was offered to him last year, the leading prosecutor on the case said today. Orange County Deputy District Attorney Charles Lawhorn said…
Farina Accused Of Misappropriating Confidential Student Info
Marcia Chambers reports: Denise Farina, the tenured teacher at the center of a rare public termination hearing, used her teacher’s pass code to take confidential information from a student data bank at the Mary T. Murphy Elementary School to give to her paralegal for use in her case — a violation of federal law, the…