How can public education institutions prevent the loss of children’s data?Avoid collecting it in the first place and require #edtech vendors to purge it annually from their entire supply chain. It sounds sensible, but it’s easier said than done in our post-pandemic world. Since 2016, school boards have been under continuous pressure to adopt cloud applications to…
Nova Scotia is advising over 100,000 victims that their #personalinformation was taken as a result of a “global #cybersecurity issue”, #Ontario recently informed some 360,000 residents about the #breach of their private data, and other provinces are facing similar challenges of #incident detection, impact assessment and #fraud prevention. In all cases, these are predictably followed by the generally weak recommendation for victims to keep monitoring their credit…
Ever lost an important email? I know! It totally sucks, doesn’t it? JPMorgan Chase, a company that recently allocated $12 Billion to upgrading its #cybersecurity and claims to spend hundreds of millions per year on #dataprotection, has “a c c i d e n t a l l y” deleted 47 MILLION emails considered to be #business records required to…
Why would anyone want to gain access to your company’s ChatGPT accounts? Because they know that in the absence of regulation and policy enforcement, users are likely to enter sensitive #information, intellectual property details, #personal data and strategically important information.#ChatGPT saves this data in chat logs by default, giving thieves exceptional visibility into company operations and creating a vast…
A gentle reminder that while #voiceprint technology was dubious from the get-go, is has of late been firmly discredited by #security professionals and researchers around the world.Just because banks and telcos – notorious for suffering from a perennially false sense of security – continue to push this “feature” onto callers, it doesn’t mean that you…
Ever wonder how advertisers see you as you surf the Web? Here are some examples of actual labels automatically affixed to Internet users:> “Defund Police Persuadables”> “Attitude: I generally get a raw deal out of life”> “Money driven”> “Affluent Ethnic Couples”> “Heavy buyer of condoms”> “Tech addict”> “Menstrual cramps”> “Elite Jewish urbanites”What’s the harm?As we…
Does Edtech Empower Dictatorship in Public Education? 10 Conclusions from the Botched Adoption of Education Technology Nowhere is the social contract more true than in public education where a dictatorship created by the people is ruled by protectionist despots ready to trade in the one currency thay possess without legitimate ownership: public education. Might is right…
Why I Reject Full Body Scanners (And Why You’re Wrong to Passively Comply with Invasive Techniques) “Do you have a medical condition?” the airport officer in charge of scanning asks, barely waiting for the answer before hailing her unfortunate colleague who will be assigned the unenviable task of having to deal with me. “No.” I answer…
Who’s Feasting On Your Personal Information Today? Claudiu’s 2-Minute Defensive Guide to Creating Online Accounts Alt title: Registering for a new online account? You’re doing it wrong. Whether it’s a store that wants to CYA by outsourcing a form to some foreign nation’s kid because they couldn’t be bothered to take 5 minutes to create…
The cost of the average data breach is zero. The real question is: what is the cost of the cover-up? Step 1: try hard not to detect it Step 2: if you find out about it, ignore it. Step 3: if they force you to acknowledge it, deny it. Step 4: if you have to comply…
