Timothy B. Lee reports: More than 1,000 young people are facing charges in Denmark after allegedly sharing two sexually explicit videos and a photograph involving underage subjects on Facebook Messenger. Danish police announced the charges on Monday morning, according to the Danish publication The Local. The sharing occurred in late 2017 and depicted a sexual…
Category: Youth & Schools
Marketing online to kids in the age of GDPR poses new challenges
Robin Kurzer reports: Marketing online to kids has nearly always come with restrictions. […] Now, as the May 2018 compliance deadline for GDPR looms, companies in general are paying more attention to data privacy. Ad tech is collecting kids’ data at an alarming rate Dylan Collins, CEO of “kid-safe” ad platform SuperAwesome, says the amount…
TN: Judge orders Nashville schools to turn over student information to state charters
The issue of whether public k-12 districts may or must disclose student info to charter schools comes up occasionally. In addition to the lawsuit described in the news report cited below, there was also a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education by a NYC parent and a complaint involving data being leaked to…
Website operators are in the dark about privacy violations by third-party scripts
by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone looking over your shoulder, and send it to third-party servers. This en-masse data exfiltration inevitably scoops up sensitive, personal information — in real time, as you type it. We released the data…