Social Media Spies –Image: Cyber Guardian Online
(CBS Los Angeles) The Glendale Unified School District has hired a Hermosa Beach company at a cost of $40,500 a year, to monitor 13,000 student’s social media posts claiming, its for the kid’s to prevent them from hurting themselves or someone else.
Riiight…
On 06 March, 2012 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a law suit under the caption of R.S. et al -v- Minnewaska School District et al, USDC Minnesota over invasion of a student’s privacy on the grounds that the student’s Civil Rights were violated by the school district and the Pope County Sheriff’s Dept in two separate instances involving Facebbok.
The ACLU Minnesota Executive Director Charles Samuelson argued, “Student’s don’t shed their First Amendment Rights at the school house gate, (see: Tinker -v- Des Moines, 393 U.S. 503 (1969)) yet schools like Minnewaska seem to have no regard for that standard.”
Who actually believes that the Glendale Unified School District will be any more consciousness than the Obama Administration’s NSA when it comes to privacy?