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The group, which had given the district more than $1 million in grants, called the practice of providing student data to police “contrary” to its values.
On the surveillance creep of parental surveillance.
TikTok is becoming more popular with adults. We look at how this changes things for the kids, and what TikTok is doing about it.
The disciplinary records of some students were also caught up in the hack. Whether that information could ever be used for sinister purposes is questionable, however.
New default settings for users aged 13 to 15.
Better Business Bureau Serving Western Virginia warns consumers of scammers using TikTok targeting minors with new sophisticated schemes.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2020Press contact: lia@fightforthefuture.org In an open letter, over 2000 parents are calling on textbook publisher McGraw-Hill to end it’s relationship with proctoring app Proctorio. Specifically, parents are demanding an end to pairing proctoring apps, which digital rights experts have characterized as ‘indistinguishable from spyware’, with course materials. The letter argues […]
‘Targeted:’ Sheriff Secretly Used School Records to Profile Students - Education Writers Association
Shool officials, parents had no knowledge of controversial program using grades, family histories to ID kids as potential criminals.|(EWA Radio: Episode 257)
Grades are in free fall, especially among disadvantaged students, who are already struggling the most
A Gizmodo investigation has found that schools in the U.S. are purchasing phone surveillance tools from Cellebrite and companies that offer similar tools just four years after the FBI used it to crack a terrorism suspect's iPhone.
It makes a list based on records so sensitive, they’re protected by state and federal law.
There’s a ritual that kicks off every new quarter in Michelle Luhtala’s library at New Canaan High School, one where English teachers send a gaggle of ...
Minneapolis education leaders have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars this year to surveil children online, even after the district ended its police department contract and launched school safety reforms that officials said would build trust between adults and students. The district terminated its longstanding relationship with the city’s police department after George Floyd died […]
What do we know about how this software affects students’ learning?
"When I finished the exam I was literally sobbing.”
**Background:** I'm a SysAdmin working for a small IT company that the school district contracts for all IT needs. There's no IT director, just...
Hannah Stern is the policy associate at the ACLU of Rhode Island. When COVID-19 forced school closures across the...
The X4, made and jointly developed in China, raises concerns.
On various moral panics and dubious "fixes" re tech and social media.