Dan Cooper, Anna Oberschelp de Meneses, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: On June 9, 2021, the French Supervisory Authority (“CNIL”) published recommendations to help strengthen the protection of minors online (see here, in French). These recommendations are the result of a survey and public consultation conducted by the CNIL in 2020, which focused…
Category: Youth & Schools
Can Schools Police What Students Say on Social Media?
Colin Lecher says the answer may depend on a case before the Supreme Court. Brandi Levy was a Pennsylvania high school student when she sent a fateful, expletive-filled Snapchat in 2017. Levy had made her school’s junior varsity cheerleading team freshman year, with hopes to make the full varsity team as a sophomore. But after…
Massachusetts School Committee Allows Real-Time Crime Center To Monitor Students Live
Joe Cadillic writes: How does a school committee respond to a year of remote student learning? How will the Springfield, MA School Committee respond to post-COVID schooling? Now that public schools are reopening (just in time for summer vacation) what are officials worried about? Is it face-to-face learning? Is it in-person interactions with students? Nope,…
University Of South Carolina Accused Of Violating Students’ Medical Privacy
Will Folks reports: The hits just keep coming for the University of South Carolina, which lost its president earlier this month due to allegations of plagiarism and has been mired in further scandal as its politically appointed board of trustees attempts to replace him. The place is an utter shambles … and we haven’t even gotten to football season yet. This week,…