Thomas J. Prohaska reports: Studies and local critics question its effectiveness. The State Education Department won’t let it be turned on. And the State Legislature came close to banning it. But the Lockport City School District continues to push to activate a facial recognition security system it installed last year in its 10 school buildings….
Category: Youth & Schools
How safe are school records? Not very, says student security researcher
Zack Whittaker reports: If you can’t trust your bank, government or your medical provider to protect your data, what makes you think students are any safer? Turns out, according to one student security researcher, they’re not. Eighteen-year-old Bill Demirkapi, a recent high school graduate in Boston, Massachusetts, spent much of his latter school years with…
Education software glitch gives predators easy access to school kids
Christopher Harris reports: Australia’s top cyber safety boss has warned that strangers can directly contact students via a privacy glitch in education software, which is available to every public school student in NSW. The loophole allows predators to verify a student’s email using Google Hangouts and then contact them directly or by sharing a Google…
IE: ECI has ‘serious concerns’ about installing CCTV in crèches
RTÉ reports: Early Childhood Ireland has called for action in the wake of the RTÉ Investigates programme into the Hyde & Seek chain of crèches. The representative body for crèches said the revelations caused “enormous anguish” among many of its members, and there is now an opportunity to transform the funding, administration and oversight of…