EPIC filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Echometrix, the developers of parental control software that monitors children’s online activity. Echometrix analyzes the information collected from children and sells the data to third parties for market-intelligence research. The EPIC complaint alleges that Echometrix engages in unfair and deceptive trade practices by representing that…
Category: Youth & Schools
From skanks to douchebags: student internet speech suit back in court
Jim Moore reports: Avery Doninger will soon return to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the right of students across the country to speak their minds in blogs and text messages at stake. Once a 16-year-old high school junior who referred to school administrators as “douchebags” in an online blog post protesting the…
UMD student banned from social networking sites in extortion case
Robb Murray reports: The University of Minnesota Duluth student charged with extortion in his attempt to get nude photos of a Minnesota State University student has been sentenced to five years of probation and banned from using social networking Internet sites. Anthony Phillip Dzik, 24, pleaded guilty to identity theft and harassment in St. Louis…
Facebook ‘suck sites’ to be tested in court
Vikki Ortiz Healy reports: A beauty school student thought he was offering classmates a place to vent when he created a Facebook page mocking teachers and classes. “Don’t be afraid to post comments on whats going on, this is yor voice too. All for one and one for all right?!” (sic) But two months later,…