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The Federal Trade Commission is working on updates to COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) with implications for how children's data can be collected online. Is this an opportunity for a new generation of ed tech to use student data in more comprehensive and smarter ways, or a threat to children's privacy?

facebook poses some serious threats to our privacy with its latest privacy control mechanisms.

It seems the privacy issue is never ending and becoming even more of a topic as changes that are supposed to better control privacy make settings even more complicated.  

article on Google Dashboard--google's new centralized privacy control site

It's about time! "The Google Dashboard aggregates all of a user's Google service accounts - for sites such as Blogger, the blogging platform, and Picasa, the photo-sharing site - in to a single interface, providing one-click access to privacy settings and account-management tools. "

LearningSpace, a new tool from ePals that is also COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) compliant, provides K-12 appropriate selective access to the applications within a protected, customizable social learning environment. Schools and districts can customize the rules and policies that determine which groups, classes and projects have access to third-party applications.

A fascinating approach to internet privacy for children. In addition to a "no post" policy for content related to their daughter, these parents have created a "digital trust" of pre-registered accounts and domain names for her to access when she's mature enough.

rapidly eroding privacy

no privacy with cognitive audit trains from phones

This speaks to the issues we have discussed in class about people who have naive ideas about protecting children from digital threats

What rights do students and parents have to privacy? Will teacher badges be next?

Article highlighting web trends from AR to privacy issues.

privacy law needs an update in the post-Internet age--the government is monitoring social networking sites

Google opens the book on privacy (somewhat).

"Skid-e-Kids says it offers children help with homework and parents a dashboard to keep tabs on what their kids are up to. "Skid-e-Kids is the only social network that is truly committed to not only keeping our children safe, but also making sure that they are systematically learning while they are having fun," the site promises."

Article about how I-Pads will make electronic patient records easier to use, less expensive, and eventually transform health care. Interesting to read after our online discussion about AI in informal learning- health communication and medical training.

With the privacy concerns surrounding medical records, HIPPA legislation and the password security that is now required of personnel in hospitals to access medical records with ever changing password authentication tokens, I wonder if iPad wireless communication poses any risk to data being hijacked.

Cherie- I actually discussed this issue with a relative who is a doctor and he said that while his office is trying to switch to digital records, he is also concerned about privacy, increased government/insurance company regulation, and a disconnect in patient care/communication (looking down instead of talking to the patient). He also is concerned about time management with so many patients- the time it will take to record information on a tablet instead of the time he takes verbally recording patient information in just a few seconds.

Watch Out! Facebook ends privacy options. No more web anonymity.

"Are spam, hackers, privacy concerns and commercialization killing social media?"