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And what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do. ~Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

Joined August 2011
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“The biggest problem that I see for any type of fraud or risk facing children, especially during the pandemic… was the need for parents and children to rely on digital devices for remote learning,” said Kristen Walker, a digital privacy expert and professor of marketing at @CSUN
Parents are increasingly choosing to be vigilant about sharing images of their children online. Here's why. trib.al/Apb2R7F
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Fantastic news for K-12 student privacy. Our youth should not have to surrender information to EdTech companies in compulsory school settings. @K12PrivacyTeam
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“Higher education transforms family trees” CSUN President Beck #CSUNinvestiture #CSUN
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Unconditional S U R R E N D E R “The Great Smushing: the crashing and flattening of our personalities, responsibilities, and selves, driven by frictionless Everything Devices and greatly accelerated by Covid.” #surrender2tech #techSTD
Our identities and roles as parents, children, friends, colleagues, lovers, caretakers, and on and on have been collapsed into a single addled being. wired.trib.al/o5lhP9Q
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#Privacy has many risk and compliance vectors. Major platforms may, in many circumstances, have more ability to drive behavior than law. Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10 billion revenue hit this year cnb.cx/3gmOmgl
We knew this, right? But here’s some evidence that “who you know is as important — often more so — than what you know when it comes to rising through the ranks.” Network analysis, gender, and influence.
Organizational network analysis showed that women had far fewer connections than men in critical decision-making networks: mitsmr.com/30USwIa
#NazarianCollege marketing professor and director of the #MBA program, Kristen Walker @mktwalker, recently spoke with the @SFVBJ about the growth of the @CSUNMBA and Graduate Certificate in Business Administration programs since #COVID19: buff.ly/2VKGeQ7 #CSUN
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Unconditionally surrendering personal information to one company is basically a new pledge of allegiance. Frictionless privacy invasion should not be a profit motive. #surrender2tech #techSTD
Facebook's problems are part of its very design, argue the authors of this new book, built atop Zuckerberg’s narrow worldview, the careless privacy culture he cultivated, and the staggering ambitions he chased with Sandberg. trib.al/0TvyaiL
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Good news for consumer protection in the digital age!
The Senate confirmed Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission. She's a prominent critic of Big Tech and favorite among progressives. trib.al/Gt18PTq
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Seriously? This takes surrendering to tech to new levels. Opt out y’all! #privacy #surrender2tech #techstd arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021…
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In my column today, I admit how much screen time my kids have watched during the pandemic and talked to child psychologists about curbing it. "It's a real crisis right now," one told me. axios.com/kids-screen-time-a…
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“since Amazon bought Ring in 2018, it has brokered more than 1,800 partnerships with local law enforcement agencies, who can request recorded video content from Ring users without a warrant.” theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Would you pay $3/mo. for ad free Twitter with features such as undo and possibly Tweetdeck (currently free) as part of the bundle? You may soon have that option bit.ly/2QqwNm5
“Let”? More data... #surrender2tech #privacy #techSTD
Instagram will let people list their pronouns on their profiles theverge.com/2021/5/11/22431…
Ever watch a movie and get a sense you should be preparing yourself for things to come? Sci-fi movies, fabulous coauthors (@GRMilne et al.) and privacy/tech trade-offs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #privacy #sciencefiction #technology #future
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Replying to @AlexaKaye3
Hello, my advisor @DrHoy480 and I are looking for participants for a research study we are conducting at the University of Tennessee. If you have streamed on #Twitch in the last 30 days and are over 18, you may qualify! Please feel free to reach out if you are interested!
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It's been a long year of Zooming. New research from Stanford breaks down the what's and why's of Zoom fatigue stanford.io/38ggezd
Let’s tell it straight. We are all SURRENDERING our personal info for convenience. Personal info is ⬆️ valuable now and in the future. When will enough be enough? How many breaches are too many? Is data the new toxic waste? #surrender2tech #privacy nytimes.com/2021/03/06/opini…
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