Rishi Iyengar reports: Thousands of people across India (and several from various corners of the globe) flooded social media Sunday with selfies taken with their daughters in response to a call from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi appealed to his country during his monthly radio address to share photos with the tag #SelfieWithDaughter — an…
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No Child Left Un-Mined? Student Privacy at Risk in the Age of Big Data
Farai Chideya reports: On Facebook, it’s the season where parents are posting pictures of K-12 graduations, including moppets in tiny mortarboards. But unlike a generation ago, today’s smallest graduates are amassing a big data trail. Just as medical and government files have been digitized — some to be anonymized and sold; all susceptible to breaches…
Texans who commit ‘revenge porn’ could soon land in jail
Anna M. Tinsley reports that after the courts threw out Texas’s first attempt at a revenge porn law: Texas lawmakers worked on a replacement measure this year, the Relationship Privacy Act, to crack down on a growing number of revenge porn cases. “This will help those who have been victimized by the horrific practice of posting…
The darkest week in Australian internet
Harry Tucker reports: It’s been the darkest week for Australian internet users in history, with new piracy bills, website-blocking laws passing and a precedent setting court case all occurring. It all started when Mashable obtained a draft copy of the letter that people who illegally downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club will soon receive in the mail….