Unsurprisingly, there is pushback against a Pasco sheriff’s program (previously noted on this site, here). Neil Bedi and Kathleen McGrory report: Civil liberties groups are vowing to take action after a Tampa Bay Times investigation revealed organized harassment of Pasco County residents and data-driven profiling of Pasco’s schoolchildren by the Sheriff’s Office. One public interest law firm…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: School IT teacher, 40, is jailed for six years after he hacked into his pupils’ mobile phones to steal naked selfies from teenage girls and store them on his computer
Joe Davies reports: A school IT teacher was jailed for six years today after hacking his pupils’ phones to steal naked selfies of teenage girls and storing them on his computer. High school technology expert Richard Edmunds, 40, told pupils he could fix their broken devices but took their private nude picture when he took…
Student privacy concerns — now, more than ever, take advantage of these great resources
If you are concerned about student privacy and are not already subscribed to the Future of Privacy Forum’s student privacy newsletter, you should subscribe to this great, free resource immediately. Here’s just the first few items from their most recent newsletter: Today, FPF and the National Education Association released Rethinking Video Mandates in Online Classrooms: Privacy…
Mill River officials: Survey mistakenly sent to students
Jim Sabataso reports: School officials at Mill River Union High School are apologizing for an email that was inadvertently sent to students containing a link to a third-party survey. At the regular meeting of the Mill River Unified Union School District School Board Wednesday evening, Superintendent David Younce explained that an email containing a survey…