Hunton & Williams writes: Recently, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) issued its 2017 Global Privacy Enforcement Network Sweep results (the “Report”), which focused on certain privacy practices of online educational tools and services targeted at classrooms. The OPC examined the privacy practices of two dozen educational websites and apps used by…
Category: Youth & Schools
Poor security blamed after school surveillance images broadcast on Russian site
So yeah, I’d say this is pretty bad. Cassie Williams reports: Security protocols on surveillance cameras at a Cape Breton school remain out of date, months after images of its students were unintentionally broadcast on the internet, Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner Catherine Tully says. Tully’s report on the matter found there were “inadequate passwords and insufficient…
Mattel has canceled plans for a kid-focused AI device that drew privacy concerns
Hayley Tsukayama reports: Mattel said Wednesday that it will not move forward with plans to sell a kid-focused smart hub after new executives decided it did not “fully align with Mattel’s new technology strategy,” according to a company statement. Children’s health and privacy advocates this week petitioned the toy giant not to release the device,…
A privacy nightmare may be looming.
Some of you will likely only know me as “Dissent,” the privacy advocate and blogger who publishes this site and DataBreaches.net. Some of you may know me under my real name as a licensed psychologist in clinical practice, an author, and as a former consultant to school districts. It is not often I put on…