You may want to scratch this item off your holiday shopping list. Catalin Cimpanu reports: A cheap $35 kids’ smartwatch made in China was caught exposing the personal details and location information for more than 5,000 children and their parents. In a report published today by the Internet of Things testing division of AV-TEST, researchers said…
Category: Youth & Schools
NY: For now, Lockport wants its facial-recognition security system to just watch for guns
Thomas J. Prohaska reports: Lacking permission to use its 300 digital cameras for facial recognition, officials at the Lockport City School District came up with another idea: Use the cameras to look for guns instead. That was their plan for this Monday, when the system was to be switched on at the district’s schools. But…
‘Kids, Cops and Computers’ program put Toronto students’ personal info at risk, says complaint
CBC News reported today on a serious breach involving students in the Toronto District School Board. At first blush, I thought that they were reporting on an issue I had previously reported involving the same district and sensitive student information. But it turns out that this is a new complaint about yet another breach or…
Israeli Teens Convicted Of Sexual Harassment For Publishing Sexual Video Of Their Classmate
Dotan Hammer of Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz recently wrote: Two 13 years-old defendants were accused of filming a Facetime call they had with the victim, who was their classmate. The video portrays the victim performing sexual acts that the defendants requested that she perform. The Juvenile Court attempted to avoid convicting the defendants due…