Mackenzi Matthews is a staff writer at the University of Illinois’s student-run newspaper, The Journal. In a new piece, she reports: The debate over the importance of privacy versus security is an old and reoccurring one. With different people in positions of power having varying stances on which is more important, it seems as if…
Category: Youth & Schools
Australia proposes teaching cyber-security to five-year-old kids
Simon Sharwood reports: Australia has decided that six-year-old children need education on cyber-security, even as it removes other material from the national curriculum. A newly revised draft of the national curriculum for children aged five to sixteen, launched yesterday, added a new strand titled “Considering privacy and security” that “involves students developing appropriate techniques for…
North Carolina school district buys face biometrics to monitor students and staff
Jim Nash reports: A facial recognition system has been purchased in North Caroline by a rural school district northwest of Charlotte. News of controversies involving face biometrics, including at least one in a school district in New York, appear not to have reached Mitchell County Schools officials or, at least, to have impressed them. According…
Amazon Can’t Force Arbitration of Minors’ Privacy Lawsuit Over Alexa Recordings–BF v. Amazon
Venkat Balasubramani writes: Minors allege that Amazon’s Alexa service improperly stores or utilizes their voiceprints. The district court denied Amazon’s request to force arbitration of the claims based on the fact that the plaintiffs, who were minors, were not signatories (or had not agreed to) to the terms of service for the Alexa device. There…