The Isle of Wight County Press Reporter reports: The contact details of every child in England have been published on a new online directory. ContactPoint has been launched nationally and is specifically designed for people who work with children, like teachers, doctors and social workers. It contains details of every child under the age of…
Confidential UAlbany documents part of Climategate leak
Chris White reports: At least two confidential documents that SUNY lawyers refused to release earlier this year were leaked as part of thousands hacked from a top climate research center last month. The documents were made available by independent researcher Douglas Keenan. In August 2007, Keenan wrote a paper accusing UAlbany Professor Wei-Chyung Wang of…
Military test provokes ire of some parents
Carnell Hawthorne Jr. reports on an issue discussed on Pogo in the past: federal education laws known as FERPA and NCLB that come into play when the military wants to get personal or contact information to recruit students. Many parents still don’t seem to know that they have the right to send in an opt-out…
MoD ‘did not want to breach privacy of detainee’ (*cough*)
Robert Verkaik reports that a law charity is accusing the U.K. Ministry of Defense of playing the “we were just protecting their privacy” card to cover up their treatment — or mistreatment — of two men arrested in 2004 and transferred to the U.S.. The men were reportedly subjected to rendition and torture in Afghanistan…