all in the name of kids

Bad Advertising Part 5: Kellogg’s Cereal Killers

Dave Wieneke
February 28, 2010 16:14

Bad advertising is the fun pause that refreshes here on UsefulArts. On our previous bad advertising safaris, we’ve: Found the the worst law firm ad ever, and helped get it pulled down. Treated the airport as a museum of misfit ads. Pointed out that UPS has a pretty bad tagline. Chronicled...

Pennsylvania “Blake Robbins” Webcam Privacy Suit Discussed: What Good is Suing A School?

Dave Wieneke
February 23, 2010 11:41

As the case of the Pennsylvania school system that allegedly spied on their students gains broader attention, the Lazy Man and Money blog raises a provocative question…why sue a school? Lawyers and lawsuits are controversial, especially as we debate health care and malpractice reform.  ...

Surveilling Kids: It’s Still Spying and Full of Trouble

Dave Wieneke
February 19, 2010 07:22

According to a class action lawsuit, a Pennsylvania school district used laptops it issued to high school students to regularly spy on them at home via the built-in webcams. In a court filing (Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District), the parents of student Blake Robbins are suing the school...

Protecting Kids Will Legitimize Surveillance and Censorship: 2010 Online Law Trend

Dave Wieneke
February 17, 2010 12:34

Your Digital Papers, Please? Last week at the Davos World Economic Forum, Microsoft’s chief research and technology officer floated what to date has been an obviously bad idea: that Internet users should be licensed. The suggestion is covered and advanced in a Time Magazine article that takes...

False Identity: A Federal Crime in the US, But Heroic in the UK?

Dave Wieneke
November 23, 2009 10:19

On The Internet Nobody Knows If You’re a 14-Year-Old Girl In Wales, a 61-year-old woman suspected that her husband had been sharing elicit emails with a 14-year-old girl, and feared he was a pedophile. She logged on from a computer elsewhere in their home, pretended to be such a girl, and...