“A secret program to monitor students’ online activities began quietly in Huntsville, Alabama schools, following a phone call from the NSA, school officials say.
Huntsville schools Superintendent Casey Wardynski says the system began monitoring social media sites 18 months ago, after the National Security Agency tipped the school district to a student making violent threats on Facebook.
The NSA, a U.S. agency responsible for foreign intelligence, this week said it has no record of a call to Huntsville and does not make calls to school systems.”
Read more here: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/after_warning_from_nsa_huntsvi.html
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