I will, however, say this: anti-cheating software, whether it’s plagiarism detection or test proctoring — is “cop shit.” And cops do not belong on school grounds.Ed-tech didn't create the "cop shit" in the classroom or launch a culture of surveillance in schools by any means.

A "bombshell" new report from The Wall Street Journal describes a secret project from Google and healthcare giant Ascension to store data on millions of Americans, a move that critics of the tech conglomerate decried as another example of overreach.

VPNs Are No Privacy Panacea, And Finding An Ethical Operator Is A Comical Shitshow Privacy from the ain't-no-magic-bullet dept Given the seemingly endless privacy scandals that now engulf the tech and telecom sectors on a near-daily basis , many consumers have flocked to virtual private networks (VPN) to protect and encrypt their data.

They would tell you, ‘Are you sure I should put shit in that structure that is even better than my house?’” Kar knew right away that this problem wasn’t going to go away until people wanted that change.