Shawn Day writes: At fewer than 300 words, the proposal seemed simple enough: Protect student privacy and restrict companies’ ability to use students’ data. The plan – sponsored in the House by Del. David Yancey and in the Senate by Sen. John Cosgrove, both with bipartisan support – failed in committees last winter. But the…
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Maryland school district to start monitoring students’ social media posts with new software
Diane Cho reports: Washington County public school officials announced that, with the start of the new school year in just two weeks, they will be using new software to monitor students’ social media posts. The county will be one of only four school districts in the nation to enlist a new software program called Social…
Visit the Wrong Website, and the FBI Could End Up in Your Computer
Kevin Poulsen reports: Security experts call it a “drive-by download”: a hacker infiltrates a high-traffic website and then subverts it to deliver malware to every single visitor. It’s one of the most powerful tools in the black hat arsenal, capable of delivering thousands of fresh victims into a hackers’ clutches within minutes. Now the technique…
Did Google Go Too Far?
Julie Bort reports: A Houston man has been arrested after Google sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saying the man had explicit images of a child in his email, according to Houston police. The man was a registered sex offender, convicted of sexually assaulting a child in 1994, reports Tim…