Posts Tagged ‘digital rights’
Rap song against coaches gets student suspended
Taylor Bell was a senior at Itawamba Agricultural School in Mississippi. Unhappy with two of his coaches, he wrote and sang a rap song that he posted on Facebook and YouTube. Once word spread and the coaches heard the song, Taylor was suspended from school …
Off-campus posts by 12 year-old about hall monitor brings detention and more
R. S. was a 12 year-old sixth-grader in a Minnesota public school. During the 2010-2011 school year, R. S. posted a comment on her Facebook profile that she hated a hall monitor for being mean to her. Somehow a screen shot of R. S.’s post …
Tweeting leads to arrest of 12-year-old
Arkansas, like many states, has criminalized bullying online. Cyberbullying is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and/or a $500 fine. School districts have included cyberbullying in their policies with some allowing discipline when students harass someone online from an off-campus location. …
Results of global survey on cyberbullying
The research firm, Ipsos, has completed what may be the first global study of cyberbullying. The online pool included more than 18,000 adults in 24 countries. The study measured parental awareness of cyberbullying, not actual, rates of this behavior. Parents constituted a third of those …
10 Student Free Speech Cases – from Raunchy Photos to Douchebag Principals
When can a school punish a student for online speech made off campus? That is the question that schools and courts across our country are confronting for the first time. We believe that one of the following cases will end up before the U.S. Supreme …
Can I use my employer’s computer? (Computer Fraud Abuse Act)
The answer seems obvious, doesn’t it? Of course you can’t get on your employer’s computer unless you have his or her permission. That seems to be common sense. But how much access do you have even if you’re permitted to log on for work purposes? …