Dutch police are youngsters to stop sending risque photos of themselves to others, following an ‘explosion’ of abuse this year, the AD reports. Reports of photos being placed online or used for blackmail have been coming in at the rate of three a day this year, police told the paper on Tuesday. Earlier warnings to…
Category: Youth & Schools
Australian schools begin spying trials using facial recognition technology
Mandy Squires reports: Australian schools are being asked to trial technology that will allow them to spy on students. A new company called LoopLearn is hopeful its facial recognition technology and “small, unobtrusive* devices,” which scan the schoolgrounds looking for students, will be used by schools across the country. The technology is designed to cut…
Back-To-School Revolt in Springfield? Employees balk over using Google Drive as evidence of massive privacy breach mounts
Springfield Public Schools in Missouri may be in the early stages of what could become an all-out employee revolt. And if they are, some employees claim that the district has no one to blame but itself for not properly securing employee, student, and parent data even after they were warned of serious privacy breaches and…
State Background Checks for Daycare Providers Part of Growing Federal Biometric Surveillance System
Mike Maharrey writes: The federal government continues to find new and creative ways to obtain information for its massive and ever-expanding biometric database, Last year, we reported that the feds plan to use a TSA program advertised as a way to avoid lines at airport security checkpoints to harvest photos and other biometric information that…