2015-10-19 Teens, Technology, and Suicide: Understanding Causes, Effects, and “Bullycide” from Frederick Lane A Featured Presentation delivered with Joanne Harpel, JD, MPhil, at the 2015 Annual Conference of the New York State School Boards Association on October 19 and October 20, 2015 in New York, NY. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or…
Unlike most of the entries in this blog that involve teacher misconduct, this is not a story that begins or ends with high-tech malfeasance. It does, however, offer an unusually well-documented example of the role that emotional vulnerabilities can play in contributing to the various types of cybertraps that snare so many educators. According to…
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”4″ gal_title=”2015-06-20 Coney Island Mermaid Parade”] And now for something completely different (and slightly NSFW). Every so often, just for fun, I will post slideshows of photos I’ve taken at special events or on trips. Ever since getting my first decent camera phone, I’ve been taking a lot more photos (offering support for the…
On May 27, a federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, NY by the parents of an unnamed female high school student who formerly attended Lev Bais Yaakov High School. The lawsuit (see below) alleges that the student was accused by an unnamed parent of sending a naked photograph of herself…
In November 2011, the news broke that Claudia Tillery, a teacher at the Stephen Decatur Middle School (MS 35) in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, had been arrested and charged with a number of serious offenses, including rape of a student, unlawfully providing a student with drugs and alcohol, and sexual misconduct by a teacher.…
A 28-year veteran of the Greenburgh (NY) police department was suspended without pay and relieved of duty earlier this week for posting an apparently racist image to Facebook. Greenburgh Police Chief Christopher McNerney told The Journal News that last week, members of the police force showed him a copy of the image posted by Officer…
A 21-year-old Brooklyn woman plead guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to charges that she recruited young women through Facebook to work as prostitutes in high-roller sex parties. Tatiana Daniel admitted to U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Go that she recruited girls as young as 14, in part…
2014-04-24 The Age of SnapPrivacy from Frederick Lane A brief overview of the history of personal privacy and the impact of technology delivered at the Cyber Privacy Symposium at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY on April 24, 2014. Included is a discussion of what actually constitutes privacy. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or…
Digital Media & the Death of Privacy from Frederick Lane A presentation on how the development of digital technology and digital media has affected the three main strands of privacy: modesty, anonymity, and control. This talk was given at ASMPNY IDEAshare on March 1, 2014. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional…
2011-10-24 Living in a Wired World from Frederick Lane This is a lecture I delivered to the KnowledgeNet Group of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) by video conference from Ernst & Young in New York to Minneapolis, MN, on October 24, 2011. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development…
