The NSA is also teaming with Google for data sniffing, and the government is trying to hush it up

"The Justice Department is defending the government's refusal to discuss — or even acknowledge the existence of — any cooperative research and development agreement between Google and the National Security Agency. The Washington based advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center sued in federal district court here to obtain documents about any such agreement between the Internet search giant and the security agency. The NSA responded to the suit with a so-called 'Glomar' response in which the agency said it could neither confirm nor deny whether any responsive records exist. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington sided with the government last July."

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2012/03/doj-asks-court-to-keep-secret-any-partnership-between-google-nsa.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/13/1350222/doj-asks-court-to-keep-secret-google--nsa-partnership

South Carolina teacher suspended for reading Ender's Game to his class

ONE student's parent complained, claiming it was pornographic. Said parent is also pressing the police to arrest the teacher, thus far the police have not arrested the teacher,

Ender's Game is an absolutely incredible book that I would recommend to just about anyone. I read it when it first came out, and though I'm not a huge fan of the subsequent books in the series (and I stopped following them), I definitely consider this a Must Read for any science fiction fan. And I would have no hesitation recommending it to any teenager.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/19/south-carolina-teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-middle-school-students/

http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2012/03/19/portlandia-enders-game-and-why-i-prefer-living-in-a-nation-over-a-confederacy/ (you have to scroll a fair way down the page to get to the SC Ender stuff)

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/20/1749236/teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-students?sdsrc=popbyskid


In other education news, a teacher's aide was fired for refusing to give her Facebook password to school administrators. She's suing the school. The interesting thing about this is that someone trying to force you to hand over your password is tat you would be violating your terms of service with Facebook, which could conceivably be illegal.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/01/1445225/teachers-aide-fired-for-refusing-to-hand-over-facebook-password