Eighteen months ago, on September 3, 2014, a young woman in Saugus, MA saw four disturbing videos in her Snapchat app. The videos were sent to her by a high school friend, Timothy Cyckowski, and they depicted two people sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in a wooded area. The young woman could hear Cyckowski laughing…
2016-02-23 Cybertraps for Educators from Frederick Lane A 30-minute keynote address delivered at the 2016 Alaska Society for Technology in Education annual conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on February 23, 2016. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my…
2016-02-18 Cybertraps for Educator from Frederick Lane A 90-minute presentation delivered to administrators, supervisors, and educators at the Fairbanks North Star Borough District in Fairbanks, AK on February 18, 2016. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my…
2016-02-16 Cybertraps for Educators from Frederick Lane A 3-hour presentation delivered on February 16, 2016 to administrators and educators in the Cordova School District, Cordova, AK. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and availability.
A few years ago, my wife Amy was selected to serve as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching American and art history in Guangzhou, China (you can read about her experiences in her delightful book, Lessons from China.) While we were there, we had a chance to travel to different parts of the country. As a life-long…
2016-01-12 Cybertraps for Health Care Providers from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered to the California Purchasers Health Care Coalition in San Diego, CA on January 12, 2016. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and availability.
A short time ago, I wrote a blog post about the need to reframe the discussion over the involunatary capture and distribution of intimate images (colloquially described as “revenge porn”) so as to better capture its true nature: “electronic sexual assault.” One of the concerns that I expressed in that post is that the terminology…
The annual conference of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) is being held in Washington, DC this week, and as usual, it is has been an energizing and thought-provoking experience. FOSI Founder and CEO Steven Balkam and his staff do a terrific job of putting together a compelling slate of presentations on some of the…
It was with special interest that I watched last night’s segment of the John Oliver show, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” In the middle of last week, I received a call from one of the show’s researchers, and had an interesting discussion about various state and federal laws that might apply to revenge porn,…
If love means never having to admit you posted nude photos of your partner on an adult Web site, then romance has taken quite a hit in the Internet era. Unfortunately, the explosion of digital cameras, smartphones with cameras, and laptops with Web cams has resulted in an explosion of homemade pornography. (The “democratization of…
