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Updated March 5 On any given school day, just one or two students show up in-person for Houston teacher Trevor Toteve’s lectures. With the bulk of his class opting to learn remotely during the pandemic, several beam themselves into the classroom via webcam. But most students appear as static, black boxes. Toteve urges the high […]
Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that at least 44 public and private universities in the United States work with outside consulting companies to collect and analyze data on prospective students, either by tracking their Web activity or formulating predictive scores to measure each student’s likelihood of enrolling. The vast majority of universities reviewed by The Post do not tell students the schools are collecting their information.
The law of data breaches is new, dynamic, and evolving. The number and complexity of breaches increases each year and legal scholars, courts, and policymakers s
Data for Black Lives is launching #NoMoreDataWeapons. No more investing in Data Weapons, No more building new Data Weapons, No more disguising Data Weapons as legitimate and neutral.
Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s
Ready-fire-aim, as usual
Proctorio has cashed in on remote learning since the start of the pandemic. Now, some schools are abandoning the company's controversial software.
Minimize privacy harms by learning about the types of privacy concerns that can arise and how to prevent them.
How common is the use of remote proctoring among North American colleges and universities? Should the higher education community be concerned?
The pandemic has allowed companies to expand an old practice of spying on workers. That’s a problem for their privacy and their power.
Online Trackers Increasingly Switching to Invasive DNS-based CNAME Cloaking Technique
a browser extension to help you track tech giants
Student analytics show you how well a particular student is doing in your course. You can also view student analytics after your course has concluded. Your institution may allow students to view their own course analytics, which helps show them accurate information about their course activity and in...
SO MUCH OVERKILL OMG. Somebody needs to be fired, and it ain't the janitor.
Professors can see data ranging from which students opened assigned readings to those that switched internet browser tabs during quizzes
On exam-proctoring tools
On the surveillance creep of parental surveillance.
Unlike many other industrial sectors, the tech platforms have emerged from the pandemic stronger and are already positioning themselves as indispensable to public health. It’s time to hold them, and all of us, to account for it