On Thursday morning, news broke that someone was going around selling student data from the University of Michigan to tech workers that build AI chatbot tech. An employee at Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research hub, said they’d gotten an offer for recordings of lectures, student discussions, and office hours, as well as essays written … Read more
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Danish privacy regulator Datatilsysnet has ruled that cities in Denmark need considerably more assurances about privacy to use Google service that may expose children’s data, reports BleepingComputer. The agency found (translated) that Google uses student data from Chromebooks and Google Workplace for Education “for its own purposes,” which isn’t allowed under European privacy law. Municipalities … Read more
Taylor Swift’s lawyers are threatening legal action against a college student who has spent years tracking her private plane and documenting the flights on the internet. On Tuesday, ET learned that the singer-songwriter’s legal team is considering suing Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, who has spent the last several years sharing … Read more
ATHENS, Greece — Police and student protesters clashed in the center of the Greek capital on Thursday after a demonstration against government plans to allow private universities. Demonstrators in Athens attacked police cordons, set fire to trash dumpsters and threw stones at riot police near parliament and later during clashes along the capital’s narrow streets. … Read more
Play video content TMZ.com Storm Reid’s at the top of her game in Hollywood — especially after winning an Emmy — but that doesn’t make her above anyone else on campus … yes, she’s still in school! We got the professional actress — who just took some hardware in recent weeks — at LAX Thursday … Read more
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an Indiana public school district’s defense of a policy barring transgender students from using bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, as the justices steered clear – at least for now – of a contentious issue in the nation’s culture wars. The … Read more
The president of Lincoln University in Missouri was placed on paid leave Friday after students and alumni called for his ouster following a senior administrator’s death by suicide this week. President John Moseley volunteered to be placed on paid leave while a third party reviews personnel issues and concerns about mental health after Antoinette “Bonnie” … Read more
A 26-year-old teacher from Missouri has been arrested on sexual abuse charges after she allegedly raped a 16-year-old student at her school. Per People, Hailey Clifton-Carmack was arrested in Texas on Friday, January 5 by the Garden Ridge Police Department on five child sexual abuse charges. The former Laquey High School teacher has been accused … Read more
Utah police say they found a teenage Chinese exchange student alone and cold in a tent after he was a victim of what they’re calling a “cyber-kidnapping.” The Riverdale Police Department said Kai Zhuang, 17, was reported missing Thursday by his high school. His parents in China had contacted the school after they received a … Read more
A teenage Chinese exchange student who authorities say was the victim of an international cyber kidnapping scheme has been rescued after nearly freezing to death in a tent outside Salt Lake City. Authorities say Kai Zhuang, 17, ran away from his host home Dec. 28, after cybercriminals convinced him his family in China was being … Read more