This case does not involve a cybertrap per se, but it does help to illustrate two related topics: 1) the ongoing profound impact that video is having on both policing and the policing of the police; and 2) as always, the perils of attempted cover-ups. (Actually, this is a case in which a cover-up would…
The National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation have teamed up to launch a new summer camp initiative, dubbed GenCyber, aimed at identifying middle and high school students with an interest in cybersecurity and assisting them in developing useful academic and work-related skills. According to the program’s Web site, the goal of the GenCyber…
The Family Online Safety Institute announced yesterday that it will be hosting a Twitter chat “focusing on Cyber Parenting and Internet Safety.” The chat will take place at 3pm EST on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, and will use the hashtag #cyberparenting. For the uninitiated, a “Twitter chat” is a planned question-and-response conversation in which all…
It was the pool party seen round the world. On June 5, a number of officers from the McKinney Police Department allegedly responded to a “disturbance” or “reports of possible violence” at a pool party at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in McKinney. It’s not entirely clear who phoned in a report or why,…
Parents, educators, and law enforcement agencies around the world are grappling with the phenomenon of underage sexting. Despite increasingly strident warnings from adults to children about the risks of taking and distributing nude photos, the trend shows no sign of slacking anytime soon. In fact, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency recently declared that sexting…
As I discussed in Cybertraps for the Young, virtually every new technology has been adapted by students to cheat on exams. It has led to a digital cat-and-mouse game between schools and their pupils, and by and large, the students seem to be winning. Now Internet security firm iSheriff is warning that Apple’s latest consumer…
[This blog post originally appeared on Good Digital Parenting.] With summer vacation looming (but not fast enough for the kids!), parents are once again confronted with the question of how to keep their children occupied, entertained, and safe during the long break. The challenge of keeping kids safe is a little more complicated than it…
In a press release issued June 2, Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. (W.D. Kentucky) announced that his office had arrested Patrick Newman, 35, and charged him with violating child exploitation laws. Prior to the announcement by Kuhn, Newman taught Social Studies at Trinity High School, an all-boys Catholic school located in Louisville,…
It’s a pleasure to be back in lovely Portland Oregon for the second time. I spent one night here last year on a drive from Reno to Seattle, but am here a little longer to attend the 2015 Annual Conference of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification. NASDTEC has been…
The relatively small town of Bentonville, Arkansas (pop. 40,000+), located in the far northwest corner of the state, has a national profile that belies its size. Most notably, Bentonville is the site of the national headquarters for Walmart, the world’s largest retail company, with annual sales in excess of $250 billion. (If Walmart were an…
