Friday, January 23, 2015

Should school children handover their social media passwords?

Dave Lewis  thinks that this is not acceptable. What do you think?

Traid Community School in Illinois has invoked State law for the following:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/illinois-says-students-have-to-give-up-facebook-passwords-or-face-prosecution

I think as long as the passwords are handled responsibly by the school boards this should be OK. Afterall the school children are under 18 years of age (somemay be more in the highest grade) and we have laws protecting them from drinking and smoking.

Why not for handing over the password?

Read this Illinois law related pdf:
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/98/PDF/098-0801.pdf

Also read the following:
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/cyber-bullying-statistics.html

This will prevent not only cyber bullying but also nip cyber crime in the bud. Can school boards handle the passwords repository responsibly?

That's perhaps another story
 

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