Edward Ongweso Jr. reports: On Friday, digital rights group Fight for the Future unveiled an open letter signed by 2,000 parents calling on McGraw-Hill Publishing to end its relationship with Proctorio, one of many proctoring apps that offers services that digital rights groups have called “indistinguishable from spyware.” Proctorio has managed to quickly get itself a terrible, horrible,…
Category: Youth & Schools
U.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Used to Investigate Terrorists
Tom McKay and Dhruv Mehrotra report: In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to…
Public interest groups take aim at Pasco sheriff’s data-driven policing programs
Unsurprisingly, there is pushback against a Pasco sheriff’s program (previously noted on this site, here). Neil Bedi and Kathleen McGrory report: Civil liberties groups are vowing to take action after a Tampa Bay Times investigation revealed organized harassment of Pasco County residents and data-driven profiling of Pasco’s schoolchildren by the Sheriff’s Office. One public interest law firm…
UK: School IT teacher, 40, is jailed for six years after he hacked into his pupils’ mobile phones to steal naked selfies from teenage girls and store them on his computer
Joe Davies reports: A school IT teacher was jailed for six years today after hacking his pupils’ phones to steal naked selfies of teenage girls and storing them on his computer. High school technology expert Richard Edmunds, 40, told pupils he could fix their broken devices but took their private nude picture when he took…