Digital technologies used in schools are increasingly being harnessed to amplify corporate marketing and profit-making and extend the reach of commercializing activities into every aspect of students’ school lives. In addition to the long-standing goal of providing brand exposure, marketing through education technology now routinely engages students in activities that facilitate the collection of valuable personal data and that socialize students to accept relentless monitoring and surveillance as normal. This year’s 19th annual report on schoolhouse commercialism trends examines how technological advances, the lure of “personalization,” and lax regulation foster the collection of personal data and have overwhelmed efforts to protect children’s privacy.

Educators and commenters who evaluate big data-driven learning environments focus on specific questions: whether automated education platforms improve learning

Just a few days after musing about the potential to sell mapping data of customers’ homes, the CEO of Roomba maker iRobot has pedaled those claims way back. In a statement provided to ZDNet,...

Federal law prohibits Web companies from tracking or collecting personal data from children under the age of 13.

Privacy isn't secrecy; it's the right to control how you're represented.

"Contextual integrity" privacy model, 5 parts: sender, attribute, subject, recipient, transmission principle

It's Google Buzz's screwup all over again. That you talked to someone on the phone once DOES NOT mean you two are socially connected.

On doxing.

Great news, right? But is it a waste of time, or a welcome step towards greater privacy?

Over the last decade, libraries have taken advantage of emerging technologies to provide new discovery tools to help users find information and resources more efficiently. In the wake of this technological shift in discovery, privacy has become an increasingly prominent and complex issue for libraries. The nature of the web, over which users interact with discovery tools, has substantially diminished the library’s ability to control patron privacy. The emergence of a data economy has led to a new wave of online tracking and surveillance, in which multiple third parties collect and share user data during the discovery process, making it much more difficult, if not impossible, for libraries to protect patron privacy. In addition, users are increasingly starting their searches with web search engines, diminishing the library’s control over privacy even further.While libraries have a legal and ethical responsibility to protect patron privacy, they are simultaneously challenged to meet evolving user needs for discovery. In a world where “search” is synonymous with Google, users increasingly expect their library discovery experience to mimic their experience using web search engines. However, web search engines rely on a drastically different set of privacy standards, as they strive to create tailored, personalized search results based on user data. Libraries are seemingly forced to make a choice between delivering the discovery experience users expect and protecting user privacy. This paper explores the competing interests of privacy and user experience, and proposes possible strategies to address them in the future design of library discovery tools.

Some police and child protection authorities are advising parents to turn off the new feature

Javascript keylogging, mouse tracking, and similar tricks.

Chances are you know you’re being tracked online. Most of us are at the point where we’re not surprised when an ad for something we searched for on one site app…

As we keep reminding you, GDPR is now less than a year away. Here are our tips to help you pick the right person to help you get ready for it

Later this year, the Supreme Court will decide if police can track a person’s cell phone location without a warrant. It's the most important privacy case in a generation.

It doesn’t take much to get people to change their security priorities.