00:01
After weighing all of the information with whom will you side, to the parents or to the school.
00:06
What are your reasons for siding with the parents? the school? so the court dismissed the parent's petition and ruled that the school did not violate the minor's privacy rights.
01:08
According to the court, the school cannot be faulted for being steadfast in its duty of teaching.
01:53
Its students to be responsible in their dealings and activities in cyberspace, particularly in social networks when it enforced the disciplinary actions specified in the student handbook.
03:07
Absent is showing that in the process, it violated the students ' rights.
03:14
The decision of the court stated that the students cannot invoke the protection attached to the right to informational privacy because the photos were seen by other students of the school, who in turn showed them to the computer teacher, who reported the incident to school authorities.
05:22
The photos, having been uploaded on facebook without restrictions as to who may see them, lost their privacy.
06:21
So here we touch on two issues.
06:23
The first is that once the photos started being seen at school, and were reported to a teacher, it now became a school issue because it was affecting school.
06:32
The secondary issue there as to why they could be seen at school in the first place is because it sounds like it was a public account or that at least the photos were.
06:43
So the minute you have a public account and you post photos and things publicly, you're really giving up your right to privacy at that point because you're saying anybody can view these and i don't really care...