Could proposed anti-bullying law lead to privacy violations?
Ben Jackson worries that well meaning efforts to curb bullying are too vague when it comes to cyberbullying and could lead to school systems installing monitoring software on the computers their students use at home – as was done in one Pennsyslvania district: … Any such legislation that mandates the protection of students must also mandate due process and protect the privacy of students, both the harassed and harassers. Otherwise we may start to see incidents like the one at [the Pennsylvania school] stop being the exception and start being the rule.
