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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...
Thoughts about Pixevety – Serious Photo Management for Schools
Product/app review – This unsolicited review on the pixevety platform was published by one of our wonderful schools (we only just found it ourselves…), and we thank Roland from Glasshouse Christian College for his honest and robust review of our platform. Apple...
The Year of Privacy – helping keep your children’s identity safe online
Article – According to statistics by the AFP, online child abuse activities are on the rise with a 150 per cent increase in child abuse reporting during the pandemic and most abuse facilitated through the sharing of online images, with up to 60 per cent of...
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...
55 Best Risk Management Companies and Start-ups in Australia
Article – This article showcases some of the most popular players operating in the Risk Management space, including pixevety, a photo privacy management tool for schools and parents that helps to protect photos. Welp Magazine – December 2020 Read full...
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...
HolonIQ Australia and NZ EdTech 50: pixevety
Article – HolonIQ announced our first annual Australia-New Zealand EdTech 50 – a list of the 50 most promising education technology startups. HolonIQ.com – November 2020 Read full article
Student privacy at school: a human right not a privilege
I applaud all schools who have taken up the essential cause of protecting student privacy online during this pandemic. In fact, a positive outcome of this horrible experience is the triggering of necessary improvements in the selection and use of technology at schools...
‘Ignorance is no excuse’: online learning roll-outs have harmed students’ digital safety
Article – In their hasty bid to deliver online learning, schools may be unwittingly placing their students in the way of damaging long-term data privacy complications, experts in digital safety – Colin Anson and Susan McLean – have warned. Education HQ – August...
NOTE TO PARENTS: GET PHOTO CONSENT RIGHT & BETTER PROTECT YOUR KIDS ONLINE
Did you know... Only 52% of Australian parents/carers talk to their children about online safety and 51% didn’t know what to do to help? These and many other surprising facts were shared by the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) just before COVID...