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Is Big Brother Watching?: High-Tech Tools Raise Privacy Concerns

Did you watch the fantastic television piece produced by PBS’s Frontline, Digital Nation? The 90-minute event showed how digital technologies have changed how Americans live, work, play, and learn. Remember the assistant principle who gleefully showed the Frontline producer how he could tap into student computers to check on their activities and confirm that students [...]

Balancing Safety and Productivity in the Digital School

The release of ISTE’s new book, Security vs. Access: Balancing Safety and Productivity in the Digital School, by LeAnne Robinson, myself, and Tim Green, has me thinking about the problems involved with creating safe and productive environments. One of my recent home improvement projects provides a metaphor for finding this balance.
I recently had a new [...]

Security awareness for Twitter account access

When it comes to granting other people, applications or websites “access” to any online account you maintain, whether the account is on Facebook, Twitter, GMail, or any other site, my advice is to be cautious and proceed slowly. This evening Dean Shareski brought the website HelpIranElection.com to my attention via a tweet. The website exhorts [...]