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Question Your Search: How Algorithms Perpetuate Inequality

Question Your Search: How Algorithms Perpetuate Inequality

by Lynette Owens | Mar 24, 2021 | For Parents, For Teachers

Question Your Search: How Algorithms Perpetuate Inequality Whether you know it or not, algorithms power many of the online services we rely upon, customizing the content we see based on our personal information, actions, and interactions online.  But these algorithms...
Lessons from the Matrix: Did we all take the blue pill in the end?

Lessons from the Matrix: Did we all take the blue pill in the end?

by Lynette Owens | Aug 28, 2019 | For Parents

It’s 20 years since cult movie The Matrix wowed cinema audiences around the world and unleashed a wave of speculation about the meaning of life and the nature of reality. At the heart of the plot was the conceit of the red and blue pill. Hero Neo, played by Keanu...
End-of-Summer Reading Assignment: Top Tips for Social Media Safety

End-of-Summer Reading Assignment: Top Tips for Social Media Safety

by Lynette Owens | Aug 16, 2019 | For Parents, For Teachers

by Lynette Owens We’ve seen some dramatic changes over the past 11+ years that Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids & Families (ISKF) program has been running. But none stand out more than the development of social media. In just a few short years it has become...
Don’t wait for laws: Act now to protect your family’s online privacy

Don’t wait for laws: Act now to protect your family’s online privacy

by Lynette Owens | Apr 23, 2019 | For Parents, For Teachers

by Lynette Owens Last month, the Washington Post published a surprising op-ed from Mark Zuckerberg. In it, the Facebook boss called for greater regulation of the internet to protect individuals’ online privacy, among other things. Although the goals he sets out are...
Media Literacy Week: What the Heck Does That Have to Do with Cybersecurity?

Media Literacy Week: What the Heck Does That Have to Do with Cybersecurity?

by Lynette Owens | Nov 8, 2018 | For Parents, For Teachers

Guest Post by Greg Young Cybersecurity is often about connecting dots, and sometimes the rationale for those connections isn’t immediately obvious. I can remember when folks argued that privacy was not related to security, but those dots are clearly connected today....
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