by Itzel Martinez | May 18, 2015 | Blog, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control
If we were asked, What age group should we focus on to educate about online privacy? Many of us would immediately think of teenagers as the target group to shed some knowledge upon. But I say, What about adults? Anyone who is on a social-media site should have...
by Itzel Martinez | May 11, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control, You Can't Escape
This New York Times article covers the progress of police body cameras. We are now at the point where these cameras are being widely tested by police officers, and the question that seems to be troubling police departments is what to do with the videos recorded. Read...
by Itzel Martinez | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Sharing Releases Control, Someone Could Listen, You're Leaving Footprints
Most people don’t think that the text messages they have sent in the past are likely to affect them in the future, but think again. SF Gate recently ran a story on Oakland police officers who are being fired for sending racist private text messages in the years...
by Julia Bernd | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control
In the last couple of days, some interesting pieces caught our attention that speak to why privacy is important (online or offline). These two works hit the extremes in presentation and style, but make similar points: A serious opinion piece in the New York Times...
by Itzel Martinez | Mar 30, 2015 | Blog, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control
The following article is the story of an elementary school teacher who used a screenshot of herself to teach her students about privacy on Snapchat. This elementary school teacher wanted to show her students that the pictures that are sent “privately”...
by Itzel Martinez | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control
Facebook’s new privacy policy was implemented on January 30, 2015. Concerns have been raised in Europe by Johannes Caspar, the privacy regulator in Hamburg, Germany, that this new Facebook privacy policy might breach the German Data Protection Law....
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