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How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.
Mental health
For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.
The company’s system for targeting ads is under fire for gender and ethnic bias. In some cases, the cure could be worse than the disease.
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
It’s publicly available information—but most people can’t really wrap their heads around the idea that their YouTube video could be used in this way.
What is the Children’s Data and Privacy Online project all about? Professor Sonia Livingstone, Department of Media and Communications, LSE Dr Mariya Stoilova, Department of Media and Communications, LSE Rishita Nandagiri, Department of Social Policy, LSE “Well we don’t actually know where the information is going. You can sign up for an app and tell […]
Researchers on Saturday published a database of what they said were racist, intolerant, or otherwise offensive Facebook posts by hundreds of current and former Philadelphia Police officers.
To prevent shootings and suicides, K-12 schools are monitoring breathtaking amounts of digital information, often with little regard for civil liberties. Internal district records highlight the messy situations that arise.
Florida’s efforts to expand digital surveillance of students in the name of school safety have been delayed amid privacy concerns, legal questions, and bureaucratic snafus, an Education Week investigation found.
"Information fiduciary" works in some situations but not others.
It's rooted in how social media celebrities see themselves. Also, sexism.
Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum
CrossFit’s decision Monday to deactivate all Facebook and Instagram pages indefinitely was fueled by growing data and privacy concerns with the social media giant, Greg Glassman revealed on a call…
Personal information gleaned from social media posts has been used to target dissent and subject religious and ethnic minorities to enhanced vetting and surveillance.
Posting clear rules made newcomer comments 8 percentage points more likely to follow the rules. Newcomer participation increased by 70% on average in a field experiment of 2,190 discussions in a 13m subscriber science community
ESPN and the New York Times are exploring how to match marketing to their users’ emotions
School districts are spending more on social media monitoring technology, but there is little evidence it is keeping students safer.