The recent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study on effectiveness of school phone bans has reignited debate over whether restricting smartphones in schools actually helps students. Its headline result—that strict bans show “close to zero” immediate impact on test scores—has been interpreted by some as evidence that regulation doesn’t work.

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The Inspector General’s audits uncovered a systemic collapse in mobile‑device security across DHS’s Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) office and CIO organization.

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cliffcoggin:

Most people do not know or do not care about the predations of the major tech companies, leaving too few of us who do care to be a viable market for any manufacturer to produce an economical phone

I’m not sure that’s ever been entirely true, and it’s certainly not true now. Many people no longer trust US technofascists like Goggle and grApple and would love to have a libre mobile…

Surveillance, Breaches, and Gaps in the Law It has become clear that privacy risks are not isolated incidents. They are part of a larger pattern. Major organizations continue to experience large scale data breaches. Brightspeed recently suffered a breach affecting around one million customers. Brightspeed opened an internal cybersecurity investigation in early January this year, after Crimson…