Marisa Taylor reports: The attorney general of Maine has decided not to enforce a controversial law that bans the use of personal information about minors for marketing purposes. The law, which goes into effect Sept. 12, caused an outcry from businesses and institutions, including Yahoo and Lexis-Nexis, that claimed the law unconstitutionally restricted their ability…
Category: Youth & Schools
ACLU lawsuit says student’s cell phone was illegally searched
John Cox of Network World reports: A middle school honor student who was expelled after authorities searched his cell phone and found evidence of what they claimed were “gang-related activities” now has a lawyer: the American Civil Liberties Union. The Mississippi ACLU this week filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, arguing that the 2008 cell…
The memoir and children’s privacy
Related to the issue of creating a record of a child’s thoughts and opinions against their will (the turnitin.com issue I raised earlier) is the issue of whether it is appropriate for parents to reveal their children’s private issues without the child’s consent. The editors of The New York Times point us to a debate…
Court backs plagiarism detector
David Canton had an article on Canoe yesterday about the use of the plagiarism detector service, Turnitin.com. For those who weren’t aware of the case at the time, several students sued Turnitin.com last year, claiming that the service violated their copyright and was making a profit off their work. The court sided with Turnitin.com, in…