Steve Nolan reports: A huge ‘Big Brother’ style database containing details of around eight million schoolchildren is being compiled without the knowledge of their parents. IT systems specialists are creating the database – including such information as a child’s age, sex, and academic records – which can be shared among officials from other agencies such…
Category: Youth & Schools
A Trail of Clicks, Culminating in Conflict
Natasha Singer reports: Washington is pushing Silicon Valley on children’s privacy, and Silicon Valley is pushing back. Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have all objected to portions of a federal effort to strengthen online privacy protections for children. In addition, media giants like Viacom and Disney, cable operators, marketing associations, technology groups and a…
Students across Quebec learn lessons in online privacy at launch of Media Literacy Week 2012
Laurier Macdonald High School in St. Leonard joined with schools across Quebec at an event to launch Media Literacy Week 2012. Students had the opportunity to talk with a panel of experts about online privacy as part of this year’s theme Privacy Matters. The week, which runs from November 5 to 9, is hosted by MediaSmarts and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF). Jennifer…
Obama Says Facebook Bigger Threat To Kids
John writes: US President Barrack Obama believes Facebook is a bigger threat to the safety of his daughter Malia Obama than dating with someone, pointing out the social networking site’s lax privacy control. In an interview with MTV, the President of the United State of America said Facebook is not a good place to hang…