Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On August 25, 2021, New Mexico Attorney General (“AG”) Hector Balderas sued Rovio Entertainment (“Rovio” or the “Company”), the developer of the popular Angry Birds mobile app games, alleging that the Company violated the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) by knowingly collecting data from players under age 13 and…
Category: Youth & Schools
A Chinese university seems to be making a list of LGBT+ students. No one knows what it will do with the information.
Jiayun Feng reports: A leaked document that has been doing the rounds on the Chinese internet reveals that Shanghai University (SHU), one of the key institutions of higher learning in Shanghai, is ordering its schools and colleges to report students who identify as LGBT+ or sexual minorities. The school is targeting anyone who is “non-heterosexual”…
Berkeley High alum, 19, posted stolen nude photos of underage girls online, police say
This was also posted to DataBreaches.net, but it’s a good reminder for parents to talk to their kids and for schools to educate students about protection. Emilie Raguso reports: A former Berkeley High School student is facing multiple felony charges this week after police say he hacked into the accounts of nine female BHS students,…
School vaccine records missing for tens of thousands of Ohio students
Jake Zuckerman reports: School vaccination records were missing or incomplete among roughly 1 in 5 sampled Ohio middle and high school students last year, despite state law requiring local boards of education to track immunizations records of all enrolled students. All Ohio students, per state law, must be vaccinated against mumps, tetanus, polio, measles, Hepatitis B,…