The Double-Edged Chalkboard: How Google & Microsoft Quietly Took Control of Jamaican Classrooms
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Children are logging into classrooms governed by policies their guardians never reviewed.
You can change your password but you can’t really change user names and you can’t get a new ID card number.
The sheer number of affected customers and the types of data involved make this breach significant.
Third party data gathering is a mass harvesting and aggregation process and in gathering this information, careless coding can create security problems.
GDPR wasn’t a perfect project in the EU, but it benefited from existing trade and business harmonisation agreements in that union.
The ICT industry still lacks a standards-based, coordinated approach, especially when it comes to governance, technical capabilities, certification, and collaboration.
Your data is captured in various ways. You enter details on forms. You give your ID (or driver’s permit) card to a company representative.
Apple’s privacy drive reaches deep into the systems that control programmatic advertising.
Facebook’s business model is based on user surveillance.
Patterns of user behaviour, viewing and content posting are tracked aggressively.
“With all the arguments between the MoE, Denomination Boards, the AG, has anyone thought to ask the children what they think about this?”
“People think that cybersecurity is an IT problem, but it’s an organisational risk management issue. It’s at the intersection of privacy and security that we find the protection of personal information.”
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