From TFA:

"The initiative will make use of technology provided by Project Sunblock - a firm used by major brands to stop adverts appearing alongside questionable content such as pirated material or pornography."

"Neither the police or Project Sunblock [are paying the website in question to display the police message." --

UK residents can sign a petition against this for the government to dutifully ignore.

These are guidelines, rather than rules, and I suspect they reflect existing policies at individual schools. Unifying standards between institutions is a good thing.

Social media can be put to constructive use through formal pages, groups and so on (as reflected by the guidance) but befriending students online is really not very professional.

Child protection guidelines are fundamentally there to protect children, yes, but let's not forget that they are as much about protecting adults from allegations made by nefarious (or simply misunderstanding) kids by making it difficult for teachers to put themselves in compromising positions.

It's partly for this reason that schools and youth organisations have internal rules and regulations that say, for example, that driving a student home on your own is something you really shouldn't plan to do. Guidance covering responsible use of the Internet is just an extension to this

That said, I think that telling teachers to have "no expectation of privacy" really oversteps the mark.

Fortunately 1975 home computers were invulnerable to inadvertent DDOS attacks so there's no chance this site will be slashd.... oh never mind.

It bothers me that this is modded "Funny". It really is the common man, through whistle-blowing facilities like Wikileaks, who watches for this kind of abuse of position.

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