Social media companies have come under intense pressure to do more to protect teens, but there’s another concern – they could go too far.
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Sexual predators have found a new way to exploit children: taking control of their webcams to record them without their consent. Here’s how the attack works and how you can protect your kids.
Data privacy is an abstract issue for most people, even though virtually everyone is at risk. Now that abortion may become illegal in some states, digital surveillance could take an even darker turn.
You have a finely honed sense of privacy in the physical world. But the sights and sounds you encounter online don’t help you detect risks and can even lull you into a false sense of security.
Self-regulation by the technology industry has failed to keep people safe online. That’s a job for government.
The Australian National University is turning to digital proctoring to replace the role of a walking invigilator. But who watches the proctor, what are the risks, and what data will be collected?
Data privacy regulations are being adopted to protect internet users. Today, humans need to read those rules to ensure compliance. New research suggests machines could interpret them in real time.
Privacy starts with the body and extends to digital data. There are few rules governing what companies can do – yet people can’t effectively protect their own privacy.
The European Union has enacted a systematic plan to give people more control over their personal data online. But despite these efforts, privacy agreements remain largely unreadable.
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Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Distinguished Professor and Provost's Professor of Anthropology; Director of the Open Anthropology Institute, Indiana University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Honorary Research Professor, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Information Technology, University of Cincinnati
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Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
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Assistant Professor in Cybercrime, University of South Florida
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Information Science, Drexel University
