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…
Category: Online
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…
Google’s Right-to-be-Forgotten Tour Finale Reveals Naked Politics
Frances Robinson reports: Representatives of Google Inc. rolled into Brussels on Tuesday, the last stop on their seven-city tour of Europe to discuss the so-called right to be forgotten, which was established by a May ruling by the European Court of Justice. The two-month cavalcade felt like spring break with more intellectual property lawyers. And, like spring break, everyone was talking…