With the societal shutdown these past couple of months the use of video conferencing has increased. In particular school; teaches; school boards and related people have started to use video conferencing to support educational efforts. On these calls information (ID's; passwords and personal information) can be exchanged and exposed. One of the rising stars has been the software called: Zoom https://zoom.us/zoomrooms Why? It's cheap. There are a number of conferencing software platforms that include: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-video-conferencing-software No software is completely safe. Saying that choosing the lowest cost software is a common goal and public schools are no … [Read more...]
This week in data: spying, lying and being human
From Missouri Education Watchdog ... NO this isn’t everything that happened in data, not even close. When you start paying attention, you see that data breaches are happening daily, internet outages, cables cut, privacy bills passing, privacy bills getting killed or weakened by the very industry taking the data, internet as a human right, tremendous expansion of online education and blended learning, lawsuits, who’s spying on who…it’s everywhere and it’s enough to make your head spin. So, today, I write on just a few of the data stories of this week. You will want to read- They are big stories. Click on the links to read the full stories. Be sure to read the last one from … [Read more...]