Jamie Harris reports: Emotional support charity Samaritans has suspended its new Twitter app due to privacy concerns. The Radar app monitored Twitter accounts to alert users of friends or family who may be showing signs of depression through their posts. Read more on Digital Spy.
Category: Online
AU: Canberrans’ privacy compromised in security camera hack
Earlier today, I posted a link to a disturbing report about security cameras that were less than secure because of default passwords. Here’s a story with an AU slant on the issue. Ben Westcott and Melanie Kembrey report: On a warm summers day in the ACT a couple cheekily kiss among the shelves of a…
Getting Caught Up: News You May Have Missed
Below are links to news developments or commentaries published during the two days that PogoWasRight.org was unavailable. They are semi-organized by topic, with some overlap between sections. Great thanks to Joe Cadillic, who helped me keep track of what I needed to save while the site was suffering from Table Dysfunction Disorder: Businesses: Suspect in rape/abduction…
Schools keep track of students’ online behavior, but do parents even know?
Taylor Armerding reports: Parents expect schools to keep track of their kids. But in the digital era, keeping track is vastly different than it was a generation ago, thanks to Big Data analytics. According to its advocates, this is a very good thing. Gathering individual information on students can lead to “personalized” and “adaptive” learning…