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  • How To (Hypothetically) Hack A University’s Surveillance System

    How To (Hypothetically) Hack A University’s Surveillance System

    This week, hacktivist and security engineer Lance R. Vick tweeted an enticing proposition along with a gut-punch headline: “Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands,” read the Washington Post link. The report revealed nearly instantaneous and sweeping adoption of smartphone-tracking platforms implemented in roughly 60 U.S. campuses,…


  • Study: Future Teachers Are Already Biased Against Black Children

    Study: Future Teachers Are Already Biased Against Black Children

    That black school children are treated more harshly than white children by teachers is no secret, as plenty of studies and painful anecdotes have repeatedly shown. But some recent research published in the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology suggests an even more discouraging reality: The incoming generation of teachers shows bias against black kids, too.