The suburban Philadelphia teenager who has accused his high school of spying on him in his home using the camera in his school-issued laptop called on school district officials to hand over copies of all photographs snapped by students’ MacBooks.
“Our counsel has requested immediate access to all webcam pictures and screenshots to determine whether the [...]
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By Robert Colvile
Published: 7:57AM GMT 26 Feb 2010
On September 8 2006, a new item was added to Google Video in Italy. It showed an autistic schoolboy in Turin being abused, physically and verbally, by his classmates. On Wednesday, three executives from Google – who had never worked in Italy, or had any idea of the [...]
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Hermitage School Board on Tuesday authorized appealing an appellate court’s decision in the Justin Layshock case.
Layshock was a Hickory High School student suspended for creating an unflattering profile of his then principal, Eric Trosch, in December 2005 on the MySpace social networking Web site.
Layshock and his parents, Donald and Cheryl, represented by the American Civil [...]
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(NOTE: Sadly, this is what it will probably take to see workplace bullying legislation taken seriously by lawmakers. Could Jodie Bostick be America’s Brodie Panlock? Thanks to Workplace News for posting this. – Mike)
By Carol Forsloff, DigitalJournal.com
In Wisconsin one woman was so distraught from constant bullying by her supervisor she killed herself. Friends, families and [...]
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(NOTE: This is a horrendous decision that could have international ramifications that threaten free expression on the Internet. Hopefully the conviction will be overturned on appeal. It’s impossible to overstate the impact and danger of this decision! – Mike)
An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing an autistic [...]
MILAN (Reuters) – Verdicts were expected on Wednesday on Google executives charged over a bullying video posted on the company’s Italian website, in a case that could set a precedent for Internet content responsibility.
The ruling comes as Italy’s government seeks to impose restrictions on hate pages on social networks and as YouTube, owned by Google, [...]
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(Another article on the recent study out of Sweden. – Mike)
The internet means that they can be targeted round-the-clock, researchers warned.
Experts claim that cyberbullying can be more damaging than conventional teasing because perpetrators can remain anonymous and therefore make more hurtful claims.
Research in Sweden also suggests that social networking sites, such as Facebook, have become [...]
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By Matthew Campbell
Story Published: Feb 22, 2010 at 6:29 PM EST
Story Updated: Feb 22, 2010 at 10:25 PM EST
“Principal Dan Smith has completed disciplinary proceedings with students involved in the harassment of Phoebe Prince at South Hadley High School. Initially, his investigation focused on a small group of girls who had been identified by other [...]
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By Joyce Kelly/Daily News staff
Daily News Tribune
Posted Feb 23, 2010 @ 12:01 AM
WALTHAM — Instead of heading to their first class yesterday to learn arithmetic or reading skills, Fitzgerald School students picked up valuable lessons on identifying types of bullying, and the difference between “tattling” and “good telling,” said Superintendent Peter Azar.
“It went very well. [...]
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London, Feb 23 (IANS) Around 10 percent of all adolescents in grades 7-9 are victims of Internet bullying, says a new study.
“Cyber bullying occurs when new technologies such as computers and mobile phones are used to harass or bully somebody. The perpetrators often use SMS, e-mail, chat rooms and Facebook to spread their message,” says [...]
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