Nicole Fierro reports from Alabama: Frustration over heightened gun violence is driving councilmembers to propose new actions. However, Mobile’s public safety director says some ideas on the table put our constitutional rights in jeopardy. Mobile’s public safety director James Barber says a recent increase in gun violence is a direct result of stolen guns —…
Category: Youth & Schools
Man paid hacker to get nude photos from UCF student’s Snapchat account, police say
Cross-posted from DataBreaches.net because this is an important online privacy issue that parents and young people need to become more savvy about. I missed this one when it first appeared, but it’s worth posting so that parents can once again remind their kids about online safety. Read the full news story on this one as…
Snapchat Owner Says It May Tighten Controls on Underage Users
Nate Lanxon reports: The owner of Snapchat is working with British lawmakers on ways to stop underage users signing up to the popular social-media platform, its senior director of international public policy said Tuesday. Snap Inc.’s Stephen Collins told a committee of senior policymakers he had met on Monday with a U.K. working group trying…
Princeton data broker tried to sell personal info on a million kids but didn’t tell state officials
Christian Hetrick reports: A New Jersey data broker that collects and sells personal information about consumers told regulators that it did not knowingly possess data on minors, even as it advertised a mailing list of more than a million high school students for sale on its website. ALC Inc., a Princeton-based company, failed to acknowledge…