For many schools today, a Facebook/Instagram page, or Twitter account serves as an essential platform to update their communities about school activities and events, especially during a pandemic. However, a recent study showed that sharing good news stories...
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2022 – The year for Privacy Action !
Children today have little control over their digital footprint and are being increasingly exposed to greater risks online. The COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably been a contributing factor, with 65.4 million abusive photos and videos reported in 2020 in the US alone –...
Facial recognition in schools – Getting it right
A compelling privacy issue of our time is the use of facial recognition (FR) and the potential invasiveness of this technology. Quite apart from the use of FR in civil surveillance and law enforcement, which is highly topical and has been the subject of proposed (and...
The safest, most private mobile app to capture, store, protect, share and enjoy your photos and videos
Like many of us, are you searching for that one product that provides a similar experience to Apple or Google Photos but with more privacy and protection? The current global pandemic has substantially enhanced our awareness about personal online security, safety, and...
Protect yourself – ‘Know the Terms’ before signing the dotted line!
It was great to hear in the news this morning that the NSW Department of Education believed teachers spent too much time on “low value” administrative tasks, and aims to reduce that by 20 per cent by the end of 2022. Let's hope others follow suit... At the same time...
Protecting student identity is a critical component to any school’s cybersecurity strategy
According to the Center for Internet Security, the number of cyber incidents aimed at K-12 schools are expected to increase by 86% in the upcoming school year. It declared U.S. schools saw unprecedented numbers of cyberattacks in 2020, and though many schools...
It’s Not Ok to Share Student Photos Online. And Here’s Why…
With the average school capturing around 30,000-50,000 photos and videos featuring students per year, scattered across various devices, I thought it timely to touch on the topic of student image protection as some of these images are then posted online, exposing a...
Schools and PIAs
Privacy Awareness Week (May 3-9, 2021) is here with a theme of ‘Make privacy a priority’, so I thought I would write about the importance of organisations conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) on technologies that collect and manage personal data, especially...
Ask please, before you say “Cheese!”, especially in 2021
There has always been the necessity to ask for consent before taking, sharing, or publishing photos or videos of others, but the simple fact is technology has made many of us less empathetic to the wishes of others before clicking that share button or thinking about...
Avoiding the Dark Art of Consent in 2021
This year has been really tough and I’m sure we are all counting the days to 2021, yet there is an important topic I’d like to quickly touch on before the New Year – already being labelled the ‘Year of Consent’ – and that is the term meaningful consent. 2020 may have...