School Makes 12-Year-Old Surrender Facebook Password
A female student in the Minnewaska school district in Minnesota who has a Facebook page despite being one year under the social network's age limit was hauled into a meeting with a school counselor and a deputy sheriff and pressured into surrendering her passwords for Facebook and email.
A female student in the Minnewaska school district in Minnesota who has a Facebook page despite being one year under the social network’s age limit was hauled into a meeting with a school counselor and a deputy sheriff and pressured into surrendering her passwords for Facebook and email.
The student’s age was not the issue, according to CNET’s Technically Incorrect blog. Rather, the problem stemmed from parents of another student complaining about a post on Facebook in which sex was discussed
During the meeting, another post on the social network was brought up in which the student referred to a hall monitor as “mean,” as well as yet another post in which she used “strong language” in demanding to know who betrayed her, Technically Incorrect reported.
The brightest red flag, however, is the fact that the student’s mother did not consent to the search of the girl’s Facebook and email accounts.
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