Dave Maass of EFF writes: Hailey Rodis, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism, was the primary researcher on this report. We extend our gratitude to the dozens of other UNR students and volunteers who contributed data on campus police to the Atlas of Surveillance project. It may be many months…
Category: Youth & Schools
Random Covid testing of students is a reasonable search under special needs doctrine
FourthAmendment.com summarizes a court opinion that will be of interest to many parents: Assuming random Covid testing of NYC school children is a Fourth Amendment search, the court applies Vernonia School District 47J and special needs and finds it reasonable. Aviles v. De Blasio, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38930 (S.D. N.Y. Mar. 2, 2021 Hall…
Google’s schools software misses privacy safeguards, Dutch ministers say
DutchNews.nl reports: Products designed by Google for use in schools are do not have sufficient privacy safeguards in place, education ministers Arie Slob and Ingrid van Engelshoven have told MPs in a briefing. […] Ministers are in talks with both Google and the European Commission to sort out the data protection issue. The aim, the…
French Supervisory Authority Publishes Results of Public Consultation on the Digital Rights of Minors
Kristof Van Quathem, Juliette Leportois, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: In January 2021, the French Supervisory Authority (“CNIL”) published a summary report of contributions it received in response to a public consultation and survey on the digital rights of minors launched in April 2020 (see the press release here and a summary report here, both in French). …