Frustrating to see steps that feel like progress seem to shore up the tech giants I hoped were being kept in check.

The focus on student learning in this year’s AECT reviews is good, but I worry that it blinds us to other important ed tech questions. I’d struggle to describe how surveillance, ethics, privacy impact student learning, but we desperately need that research too-or more!

Doing transcription yourself sucks. It’s long and tedious, and the final product never feels worth all the effort you put into it. For all that, though, this is exactly why services like Otter have never sat well with me.

Contract tracing is good, but apps for it are scary. Ugh.

Vive la France ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Not a great look.

File this under bad solutions to worse problems.

Takes some real self-confidence to describe an always-on camera as a feature, not a nightmarish bug.

Accelerometer data can be used for invasive tracking, and Facebook seems to be doing so. This is truly scary stuff.

Very scary stuff here.

Something else to write representatives about.

Interesting read on an important subject.

Facial recognition is worrying.

Good take on the privacy issues involved with modern gift-giving.

Terrifying stuff. I know “Orwellian” gets overused these days, but TVs that watch us are straight out of 1984.

Good progress but need more.

We ought to be talking more about biometric data.

Tech companies are often ad companies, and it behooves us to remember that.

This means we’re going to get some soon, right?

On the internet, more and more people can learn you’re a dog.

I have been thinking recently about streaming as a compromise in internet-era IP disputes, but this shows one reason that it’s not good enough a compromise.

This blurb stood out to me: “Apple says, relentlessly, that privacy is the central feature of its iPhones. But as the photo scanning demonstrates, that’s true only until Apple changes its mind about its policies.” Seems to me we shouldn’t be dependent on tech companies’ decisions to ensure privacy.

Please also give me the confidence of an Apple exec explaining how scanning all your photos is “an advancement of the state of the art in privacy.”

Give me the confidence of a FB employee wringing hands about researchers’ allegedly “put[ting] people’s data or privacy at risk.”

The thing about getting in the habit of reading privacy policies is that it sometimes changes your behavior, but it ALWAYS ups your anxiety about the impossibility of ever changing your behavior sufficiently.