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Did you know... 70 per cent of school marketers in Australia are using Facebook as their major social media platform, yet Instagram is rapidly surpassing that position 72 per cent of Australian schools have reported managing at least one incident of online bullying in...
This week is National Child Protection Week across Australia and I was delighted to be asked to represent my company and discuss the important topic of child image protection on The TODAY Show last Sunday with eSafety expert, Susan McLean. I thought I’d now share a...
Did you know that schools around the world have opened up their doors to Google and given it access to student data? Google proudly states it attracts 90 million+ educators and students to use its G-Suite, 40 million+ using Google Classroom and 30 million+ using...
With this week being Privacy Awareness Week across Australia, I'd like to share my thoughts on a very important privacy topic - Consent. There has been a lot of press lately on the topic of parents sharing children’s photos online without consent (specifically Gwyneth...
I was asked recently to write about this topic for an online publication and it intrigued me to continue the discussion here on LinkedIn as it is a topic that is growing in public interest. Every school has a duty of care to ensure personal information handled about...
As the year comes to a close, I’d like to thank everyone on LinkedIn who took the time to read my blogs this year. The ACCC’s digital platform findings released last week, the news just published on Facebook’s misuse of photos, and the New York Times opinion piece...
With the strengthening of the Australian privacy law to include mandatory data breach notification, the growing data privacy issues surrounding big tech companies like Facebook, Google - and even now Apple - the introduction of the Global Data Protection Regulation...
In my line of work, I am often approached by parents concerned about cyber-bullying, image-based abuse, child photo harvesting and identity theft. Posting photos online without permission is increasingly becoming “the norm” these days and it’s probably why my recent...
With both National Child Protection and eSmart Week happening next week, it should go without saying that sensitive information that directly identifies a person – like photo-sharing – should be done with caution, especially of children. Yet recent statistics shared...
With 80% of Australians now saying they would never want organisations sharing ‘Photos of my kids/family’ with third parties – higher than any other type of data or information – isn’t it time we checked in with our schools on how they manage photo consent? I’ve had...