Opting Out: Ignorance, Not Consent

Almost everyone I know has, at some point, googled themselves. Whether by the newsworthiness or by the uniqueness of our names (in my case, the latter), we’ve all bragged to each other about how high up we appear in the search pages for our names — or, in some cases…

Case for the Classroom

“Claire, do you still think you may want to be a professor?” my friend asks me as we pick at our lunches in the dining hall. We planned to have lunch together, but we’re accompanied by our laptops. I’m vigorously typing away at a paper, while she’s live-streaming her history lecture…

Regulation & Innovation in the Student Privacy Ecosystem

As edtech becomes increasingly integral to K-12 education, key educational stakeholders are using a number of different governance tools to address the opportunities and challenges at the intersection of the use of student data and…

Newfound Interest

Practical ways of raising awareness

CLICK. CLICK. Google is the master of search. It tracks our moves online and uses complex algorithms to predict our next click. Let’s see how good they are. Below is their profile of my “interests”:

Friend Me Later

Facebook and its Social Power

One Friday afternoon, at an average yearbook committee meeting, we stalked our peers’ Facebook pages. The thing about yearbook is that you need pictures, and our image library was getting fairly scarce. Desperate, we
turned…

Lunch & Learn

The Student Privacy Initiative hosts a luncheon talk this Tuesday. We will be discussing our learnings from the past two years, with a focus on the evolution of challenges & opportunities in the student privacy space, as well as looking forward to forecast emerging and future developments in this space…