Texas School District Reportedly Threatening Students Who Refuse Tracking ID, Can't Vote For Homecoming
The Huffington Post reports: "The 'Student Locator Project,' which is slated to eventually reach 112 Texas schools and close to 100,000 students, is in trial stages in two Northside district schools. In an effort to reduce truancy, the district has issued new student IDs with an embedded radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip that tracks the location of a student at all times [...] John Jay High School sophomore Andrea Hernandez refuses to use the new IDs, citing religious beliefs and instead sticking with her old badge from previous years, calling the tracking devices the 'mark of the beast.' She tells Salon that the new badges make her uncomfortable and are an invasion of her privacy."

My Way News - Court lets stand telecom immunity in wiretap case
My Way News reports: "The Supreme Court is leaving in place a federal law that gives telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program. The justices said Tuesday they will not review a court ruling that upheld the 2008 law against challenges brought by privacy and civil liberties advocates on behalf of the companies' customers."

My Way News - Iran swipe at Web brings angry reply:
My Way News reports: "Iran's cyber monitors often tout their fight against the West's 'soft war' of influence through the Web, but trying to block Google's popular Gmail appeared to be a swipe too far. Complaints piled up - even from email-starved parliament members - and forced authorities Sunday to double down on their promises to create a parallel Web universe with Tehran as its center."