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Looser privacy standards for vehicle data are a treasure chest of data for law enforcement.
The rapid shift to online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the penetration of an algorithmic world view into education systems around the world. Promoted by a burgeoning educational technology industry, platforms that use algorithms to structure and monitor teaching and learning have been presented as technical...
Phone calls. Web searches. Location tracks. Smart speaker requests. They’ve become crucial tools for law enforcement, while users often are unaware.
Tech corporations are expanding the scope of surveillance across the correctional pipeline, but who pays the price?
An example of people Making Shit Up and hiding it in the haystack of other data
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)
72% of businesses admit tracking of customer data happens
"Data Protection Addenda"
Increased use of surveillance technologies by landlords across the United States could worsen a looming eviction crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic, researchers and renters warned on Monday.
Consumer privacy has fallen into the FTC's purview, so it's digging deep.
The FTC is investigating data collection at YouTube, Facebook, and seven other companies - The Verge
The companies have 45 days to respond.
You may have never heard of X-Mode, but it could know a lot about you.
With Insights, educators can distills the key story and trends behind the classroom data to better inform engagement with students and class outcomes. They can closely track the engagement and progress of students over time and across their classes and can see spotlight cards to show trending student behaviors they may want to take action on.
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.
The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling internet users. That’s the damning assessment of the U.K.’s data protection regulator in an update report published today, in which it sets out major concerns about the programmatic advertising process known as real-time bidding (RTB), which makes up a large chunk of online advertising. In what sounds […]
Students say Proctortrack, an online proctoring company that monitors students at major universities, is putting their privacy at risk. Consumer Reports shares details on how students' sensitive data was an easy target for hackers.
The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice. After all that, it still isn’t very helpful.