New blog post out now:
How Banks Discriminate against Youth - The Dangers of Parent Managed, “Teen” Bank Accounts
youthrights.org/how-banks-discriminate-against-youth-the-dangers-of-parent-managed-teen-bank-accounts/
The second episode of the Youth Rights Podcast (Ep. 1 "Runaway Rights") is out now!
Watch on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=AZUH...
Watch on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/49iZ...
I just launched Invisibrowse, a website that uses DRM video to block screenshots and screen recordings, including by school monitoring extensions like GoGuardian. It's currently a technical demo, able to proxy pages from Wikipedia only.
Check it out:
invisibrowse.github.io
Twitter post by the National Youth Rights Association / @YouthRights: "Hey @FoxNews and @AsraNomani, we don't use any mature minors to die by physician-assisted suicide. We're not even sure what that means, and we've never endorsed or mentioned assisted suicide in any context. Fix your page, and maybe your editorial process too." Twitter post has attached screenshot of the fox news page https://www.foxnews.com/world/untold-damage-global-assisted-suicide-movement-targets-children ("Global assisted suicide movement targets children" by Asra Nomani/@AsraNomani) with text on screen reading 'Now, advocates are leveraging that same doctrine to argue that children should have the "medical autonomy" to choose death. The "National Youth Rights Association," a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Hyattsville, Md., uses the "mature minors" to die by physician-assisted suicide.' Only the second sentence of the shown page is highlighted.
I helped edit this, go read it it's important
New NYRA blog post out now: Powerschool vs Student Privacy.
youthrights.org/powerschool-...
for help editing the post. The cover image is a mix of the Powerschool logo and a screenshot taken near the Powerschool offices on tangram.city. The third result on Wikimedia commons for "map marker" filtering by no restrictions was also used, and the image was made with Inkscape. (4/4)
The caught 19yro hacker "Matthew Lane" was released on bond, with one notable condition being "that he live at home in Sterling with his parents", despite him being a legal adult. I of course don't support his actions, as he would've hurt students. Thanks to @rimonhadassah.bsky.social (3/4)
a company that, as Wikipedia puts it, has "been accused of torture and abuse" against mainly teenagers. Aspen Education was sold alongside CRC Health for 1.2 billion dollars to Acadia Healthcare. (2/4)
Something that didn't fit in the blog post: GED testing is administered by Pearson, which interestingly used to own Powerschool (and before that, Powerschool was owned by Apple). Powerschool was then sold to Bain Capital, a private Equity firm that used to own Aspen Education Group, (1/4)
