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Many parents create a digital footprint for their children from the first post of their baby’s ultrasound.
In the midst of a pandemic and a national uprising, Teeth Logsdon-Wallace was kept awake at night last summer by the constant sounds of helicopters and sirens. For the 13-year-old from Minneapolis who lives close to where George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, the pandemic-induced isolation and social unrest amplifed his transgender dysphoria, emotional […]
Surveillance as a security threat
An Illinois teenager has found two zero-day vulnerabilities in Exterity IPTV systems during a rick-roll prank he pulled off on his school district before graduation.
The Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People
"It is crucial to consider a range of strategies schools can use to become hubs of information, shared decision making, and shared understandings of digital citizenship for students, teachers, and families." - @ac_starks
Another example where a massive amount of personally identifiable information exposed on the Internet.
The company has to compete with Snapchat and TikTok.
A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), reveals that parents and teachers have learned to accept surveillance in schools.
The past few years have seen widespread adoption of software that monitors students in K-12 schools across the country. These tools provide teachers and schools with the ability to filter web content, monitor students’ search engine queries and browsing history, view students’ email, messaging, and social media content, view the contents of their screens in […]
Many school districts across the nation expanded efforts to provide devices like laptops and tablets to students during the global pandemic in an effort to close the homework gap and address inequities in technology access. Part of this shift included the introduction of student activity monitoring software and other digital tools aimed in part at […]
Over 1,000 US schools have been attacked by ransomware and had their data published on the Dark Web this year according to NBC news.
A week after the pandemic forced Minneapolis students to attend classes online, the city school district’s top security chief got an urgent email, its subject line in all caps, alerting him to potential trouble. Just 12 seconds later, he got a second ping. And two minutes after that, a third. In each instance, the emails […]
Many parents seem happy to use their child’s first smartphone as a way to check their whereabouts. There are reasons to reconsider that.