Barbara Ortutay of the Associated Press reports: All the dirty laundry younger people seem to air on social networks these days might lead older Americans to conclude that today’s tech-savvy generation doesn’t care about privacy. Such an assumption fits happily with declarations that privacy is dead, as online marketers and social sites such as Facebook…
Category: Youth & Schools
Webcamgate: Laptops took thousands of images – lawyer
John P. Martin reports: The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district. More than…
Google and Facebook’s illusion of privacy
Bruce Schneier writes: In January Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, declared the age of privacy to be over. A month earlier, Google Chief Eric Schmidt expressed a similar sentiment. Add Scott McNealy’s and Larry Ellison’s comments from a few years earlier, and you’ve got a whole lot of tech CEOs proclaiming the death of privacy…
Commentary: BSA attorney serves up BS in closing arguments
Travis Sanford reports on the closing arguments in a civil suit against Boy Scouts of America (BSA). BSA was sued over allowing a man, Timur Dykes, to remain active despite the fact that he had confessed to the Mormon bishop supervising his troop that he had sexually abused 17 boys. The Church of Jesus Christ…