Teen wins case against school for privacy violations after having her mobile confiscated and nude photos of her viewed...

A schoolgirl who was initially suspended for having indecent images of herself on her mobile phone, has won $33,000 (£21,240) after suing her school in a landmark case for civil liberties.

The 17-year-old, who was named as 'N.N.' in order to protect her privacy, was made to serve a three-day suspension from her high school in north east Pennsylvania in January last year after a teacher confiscated her phone which she was using before a lesson was starting.

The school principal then scrolled through N.N.'s mobile phone text messages, e-mails and photographs and found explicit naked images of the student in the gallery and dished out the suspension. More...

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