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Companies resist proposal to strengthen online privacy protections for children
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter have all objected to portions of a federal effort to strengthen online privacy protections for children, reports The New York Times.…
Most NYC schools to open Monday despite challenges
Life is far from normal for 13-year-old Eliran Cohen a week after Superstorm Sandy flooded his family's Staten Island condo, the Associated Press reports.…
Senate likely to revisit cyber bill
enate Majority Leader Harry Reid hopes to reintroduce cyber security legislation opposed by business groups once lawmakers return after Tuesday's election, a Senate aide said, adding that a White House…
North Carolina to outlaw student cyber bullying of teachers
It soon will be illegal for a student to bully a teacher online in North Carolina, under an expansion of the state's cyber bullying law that goes into effect Dec.…
Teen’s death inspires campaign on dangers of texting while driving
The last thing Ashley Umscheid did before her pickup flipped end over end, throwing her into a ditch, was tap a single letter on her phone: K.…
From guns to schools? Checking Obama and Romney on education
In perhaps the biggest pivot of the presidential debate Tuesday night, President Barack Obama turned a question about gun violence into an answer about education, the Huffington Post reports.…
Do Not Track? Advertisers say ‘Don’t tread on us’
Do Not Track mechanisms are features on browsers — like Mozilla’s Firefox — that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies to stop collecting information about…