So it’s “Nothing to see here. Move along.”?? Tom Puckett reports: The state education department says a promise by the Lockport school district satisfies its concerns over student data being collected. Lockport schools told the state in a letter the Lockport School District has come to the decision that no [Read More…]
You may want to scratch this item off your holiday shopping list. Catalin Cimpanu reports: A cheap $35 kids’ smartwatch made in China was caught exposing the personal details and location information for more than 5,000 children and their parents. In a report published today by the Internet of Things testing [Read More…]
Thomas J. Prohaska reports: Lacking permission to use its 300 digital cameras for facial recognition, officials at the Lockport City School District came up with another idea: Use the cameras to look for guns instead. That was their plan for this Monday, when the system was to be switched on [Read More…]
CBC News reported today on a serious breach involving students in the Toronto District School Board. At first blush, I thought that they were reporting on an issue I had previously reported involving the same district and sensitive student information. But it turns out that this is a new complaint [Read More…]