Hopefully when you all think of schools the first thing that comes to mind is learning. However, the reality of schools is that they exist within a complex systemic environment. Technology has helped make certain processes more efficient (perhaps also effective or accurate), but has brought with it its own problems.
I want to share with you this brief article about how schools need to plan for keeping secure all of the data generated during the course of a school day -- and it's not just artifacts of student learning.
It's a quick article and worth a read:
https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2018/05/schools-must-invest-to-protect-iot-devices
Although the article is about K-12 schools, it made me wonder about my own transactions at FSU. Somewhere it's recorded each time I swipe my ID card to enter the Morgan Studio. I'm wondering if my parking access card (less sophisticated technology, I think) creates its own record. And my devices (phone, iPad, laptop) automatically connect to the wifi each time I'm on campus. I'm leaving quite a data trail before I actually do anything.
How about you? What data trails are you generating through IoT at school or work each day?
Your example about your ID card swiping at the Morgan studio and your wondering about your parking pass access card makes me recall how cell phone records, toll records, and video camera's have been used to solve crimes. I recall watching a show where a guy killed someone in another state after driving there to do the deed then headed home as if he had never left. He claimed he never left, but the toll road was able to prove otherwise.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of security cameras at gas stations, banks, or just home security cameras have been used to prove a testimony inaccurate. It just goes to show and build the case that the truth will eventually come out. You can only hide for so long especially with the data enhancements we are seeing in the world. If you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn't be worried... unless someone wants to frame you and is able to use data to make it look like you were somewhere when you weren't. That is what scares me the most.
Also, thank you for using the term IoT so that I could look up what it was. I had never heard that before. Learning so much.
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