The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and its rules (collectively, “COPPA”) requires SchoolMint to inform parents and legal guardians about our practices for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information from children under the age of 13. It also requires us to obtain ...
New data protection laws are placing an “intolerable burden” on schools, Bob Geldof has told an education technology conference. The rock star and anti-poverty activist is a co-founder of Groupcall, a company set up in 2001, which provides “communication, data and identity management solution...
This database was not connected to Bonobo’s private data, which was siloed for protection. But threat actors could still exploit the stolen information. After the stolen data was dumped on a hacker forum, a threat actor claimed to have uncovered 158,000 hashed SHA-256 passwords. But the re...
Freedom of information, user privacy and data protection: three things most of the younger generation do not care about. Those three things alone, in any sentence, even including the words "Harry Potter" and "Facebook", will all but guarantee to bore the trousers off anyone under the age o...
schoolseducationsurveillanceThe use of CCTV in schools is now commonplace in the UK. It is estimated that 85% of all UK secondary schools currently have CCTV systems in operation. The introduction of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) (enacted in March 2000) meant th...
The school didn’t consult its data protection officer (DPO) or carry out a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) before installing the technology. With this renewed focus on children’s personal data and biometric processing, schools should now be on alert for harsher regulatory action if ...
Google brings Gemini AI 1.0 Pro to schools with Workspace for Education. And Chromebooks get new accessibility features.
complain to the Office for the Protection of Personal Data of Spain (AEPD); and object to the processing of personal data that concern you. 6. How do we protect your personal data? We take our commitment to protect personal data very responsibly. We use SSL Encryption for all communicatio...
A data sharing policy (leakage: red arrow) enables additional knowledge to be produced (injection: blue arrow). Full size image Assuming that data leakages (red arrow) operate as monetary taxation, Eq. (2)Footnote6identifies the determinants of the amount of data shared. We refer to this as...
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)is Europe’s digital privacy regulation. It requires companies to protect the privacy and personal data of EU citizens when a transaction takes place in the EU—even if the business doesn’t have a presence there. It also requires companies to get permiss...