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The Pennsylvania Senate introduced a bill on June 21, 2024 to launch a pilot program to regulate the use of cell phones by students in public schools. A similar bill was introduced in the PA House in February 2024. The...more
Social media has become a prevalent part of people’s lives. Many people post about how great their life is or about the good things that their children do (guilty as charged.) Others debate politics. Some post pictures of the...more
Given that social media and the Internet have a significant influence on various aspects of students’ lives, it is unsurprising that they also play a role in the occurrence of hazing too. Hazing no longer occurs behind closed...more
Social media platforms have become an integral part of our daily lives, enabling us to connect with friends, family, and communities worldwide. However, the openness of these platforms also exposes users to the risk of...more
The UK is reportedly considering legislation that would impose a ‘duty of care’ on social media companies to regulate harmful content on their platforms. This push for an online safety bill was triggered by the high-profile...more
Riot Games’ (Riot) team-based, first-person-shooter game, Valorant, has received mixed emotions upon its announcement that it will monitor the game’s voice chat. Team-games especially benefit from players being able to...more
North Carolina AG Josh Stein and Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch led a bipartisan coalition of 44 AGs in calling on popular social media applications TikTok and Snapchat to strengthen internal parental content controls and content...more
As of October 1st, 27 new bills from the 2021 Legislative Session have taken effect. A number of bills passed during the 2021 Florida Legislative session were effective upon approval by Governor DeSantis, and many others took...more
Social media has transformed how we interact online and engage with our communities with the average person spending over six hours a day online. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen an even greater increase...more
Quaden Bayles is a nine-year-old Indigenous Australian who suffers from a rare case of dwarfism as well as other significant health issues. Quaden's story became topical globally following the release of a video filmed by...more
Whether your students are learning in a remote or a hybrid model, there is no doubt that they are online much more frequently these days than in the past—sometimes, it seems like they are online all the time. All of that time...more
In a purported attempt to safeguard free speech, President Trump has issued an order “Preventing Online Censorship,” that would eliminate the protections afforded by one of our favorite topics here at Socially Aware, Section...more
Cyberbullying is nothing new. A majority of teens have experienced the phenomenon and college campuses certainly are not immune. Just because something is common does not make it simple to deal with, however. And this is...more
The high-end skincare brand Sunday Riley has settled lawsuits filed by the Federal Trade Commission claiming that the brand’s founder encouraged employees of her eponymous company to set up accounts “under different...more
We’ve previously written about doxing and how it can be used by both vigilante social activists and malicious cyber bullies. Recently, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...more
Pilot Repeatedly Posted Sexually Explicit Photos of Flight Attendant On the Internet, Federal Agency Charges - SAN ANTONIO, Texas - United Airlines, Inc., an international airline operating in over 300 airports across five...more
An advertising executive who lost his job after being named on an anonymous Instagram account is suing the now-defunct account for defamation. The suit names as defendants not only the account—Diet Madison Avenue, which was...more
Partner Gregory Rolen explores this hot button topic in an article which was originally published in the Daily Journal on May 14, 2018. The article addresses a difficult subject for schools and school administrators who are...more
The government in Indonesia has warned the world’s biggest social media providers that they risk being banned in that country if they don’t block pornography and other content deemed obscene....more
After British police unsuccessfully tried to get the blogging platform WordPress.com to remove offensive and threatening posts, the deputy leader of the UK’s Labour Party vowed to urge changes that would make the country’s...more
I was fortunate this week to be able to attend and speak at the annual Privacy Xchange Conference sponsored by CyberScout. There were amazing presentations during the conference, but one in particular touched me and is worthy...more
A federal appeals court in Miami held that a judge needn’t necessarily recuse herself from a case being argued by a lawyer with whom the judge is merely Facebook “friends.”...more
After counter-protests ended in tragedy, a small group of social media users took to Twitter to expose the identities of the white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallying in Charlottesville, Va. Since last Sunday, the...more
Over 30 workers at a Japanese insurance company are losing their jobs following the company’s adoption of IBM’s Watson Explorer, an artificial intelligence system that will perform an important back office function at the...more
I never knew that since 2006, October has been designated as National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month. According to the Department of Health and Human Service’s website, “This year’s Bullying Prevention Awareness Month...more