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Ongoing Issues With Security, Privacy, Complexity

Data Breach Today

Rebecca Herold, host of the podcast show "Data Security and Privacy with the Privacy Professor," weighs in on the state of cybersecurity and privacy education and gives her recommendations on how to remedy the many issues the security community faces today.

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GUEST ESSAY: Few consumers read privacy policies — tools can now do this for them

The Last Watchdog

When was the last time you read an online privacy policy in its entirety? Related: What happened to privacy in 2021. This document is called a privacy policy. We are supposed to read through the privacy policy before proceeding with using the app or service. Perhaps, never? Yet our world has moved online.

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Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform

Security Affairs

New Mexico sues Google for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from children. Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from students with an age of less than 13 years. SecurityAffairs – Google, privacy).

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GUEST ESSAY: 5 steps for raising cyber smart children — who know how to guard their privacy

The Last Watchdog

The question isn’t whether we should educate children about online safety, but how we can best inspire them to learn to be thoughtful, careful, and safe in the cyber world for their lifetime. Similarly, teaching concepts like the value of information and the importance of privacy and discretion can be made simple for children.

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MY TAKE: Apple users show strong support for Tim Cook’s privacy war against Mark Zuckerberger

The Last Watchdog

Like a couple of WWE arch rivals, Apple’s Tim Cook and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have squared off against each other in a donnybrook over consumer privacy. Cook initially body slammed Zuckerberg — when Apple issued new privacy policies aimed at giving U.S. Related: Raising kids who care about their privacy.

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FTC Announces Virtual Open Meeting to Discuss COPPA and Education Technology

Hunton Privacy

The meeting’s tentative agenda includes a vote by the FTC on a policy statement prioritizing the enforcement of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) as it applies to the use of education technology.

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MY TAKE: Technologists, privacy advocates point to flaws in the Apple-Google COVID-19 tracing app

The Last Watchdog

If the devastating health and economic ramifications weren’t enough, individual privacy is also in the throes of being profoundly and permanently disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. In doing so, their proposed solution has a number of glaring technical and privacy-protection shortcomings, according to several technologists I spoke with.

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