Will Romano reports: On a campus where the majority of classes are held online, Canvas and its embedded video-sharing platforms Zoom and BBCollaborate Ultra have become the primary form of communication between students and professors. While these platforms are the leading way to create an online learning community, they share with professors data that violates student…
Category: Youth & Schools
Entire California School Board Resigns After Chewing Out Parents on Accidental Zoom Broadcast
Alyse Stanley reports: It’s hard to believe that almost a year into the pandemic pushing everything virtual, there are people still struggling to get the hang of Zoom. And yet here we are. All members of a northern California school board have resigned after being caught deriding parents in a profanity-laden Zoom meeting they didn’t realize was being…
Singapore Government Plan to Install Monitoring App on Student Computers Meets with Resistance from Privacy Groups, NGOs
Scott Ikeda reports: In response to the school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the government of Singapore is rolling out an initiative that aims to ensure all secondary school students in the country have a computer for home learning. However, these student computers will come packed with a potentially unwelcome addition: a…
Could your baby monitor be unsafe and unsecured?
I’d ask, “Why is this STILL happening?” but I think we all know the answers to that, and Jim Wilson of Safety Detectives actually addresses that in his article. The SafetyDetectives cybersecurity team has discovered a vulnerability affecting baby monitors, provoked by their misapplication/misconfiguration, which provides potentially harmful parties with unauthorized access to each camera’s video stream….