WOWT reports: A Sarpy County mother fears for the safety of her two young children. She’s searching for answers after her youngest daughter received disturbing voice messages on her electronic watch. “We buy these for our kids to be safe and here they are potentially putting them in more danger,” concerned mother, Tifffany Berney, said….
Category: Youth & Schools
School cameras give illusion of safety at privacy’s expense
Jim Schultz writes: When my daughter returned to classes this fall at Lockport High School in western New York, she and other students in our small district were welcomed by something new — a $2.7 million network of 300 high-tech facial recognition cameras. No other school in the nation has anything close to it. The…
Android news and kids apps contain the most third-party trackers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An academic study of nearly one million Android applications reveals that most apps contain third-party tracking code, and that “news apps and apps targeted at children appear to be amongst the worst in terms of the number of third-party trackers associated with them.” The University of Oxford research consisted of a team…
NJ: Naked photos of Lodi students led to charges against middle school teacher for sexting boy
Tom Nobile reports: Sexual texts from a female middle school teacher to a 13-year-old male student came to light after a group of students, including the boy, were found to be circulating explicit pictures and videos of the teacher, as well as photos of other girls at Lodi High School. Police learned about Stephanie Carafa’s…