New Guidance: Image Guidance for Education Settings
With the risks and increasing concerns over AI image abuse, and coincidentally after the article I wrote last week, Should schools still publish photos of pupils online? , new guidance has come out for education settings. Developed by the UK Online Harms Early Warning Working Group it takes you through best practice in regards to responsible management, sharing and protection of photographs and videos featuring children and young people. As well as the guidance there is a further guide to removing EXIF data and an example risk management template.
Link – Image guidance for education settings.
Steps for Reviewing Your School Monitoring
By now schools are very familiar with the needs and requirements for monitoring devices. But if you need a refresher Smoothwall have put together a really useful article which goes into who is responsible, when you should review, how you review (with example questions), responding to incidents and recording incidents.
Link – Essential Steps for Reviewing your School Monitoring System.
Omoggle the New Omegle?
There was a huge sigh of relief when finally, after many years, Omegle was ordered by a court in the US to cease. So many children were harmed on Omegle, but as always it doesn’t take long, now we’ve got Omoggle.
This is starting to come onto the radar, it’s very similar to Omegle where users are connected randomly on live video calls. There is no age verification, just a “Yes I am 18” button, but not only that it uses what is known as a PSL scale to scan faces using AI and people are assigned a numerical rating and placed on a leaderboard. This is known as ‘mogging’, meaning to outperform someone else by being judged by their looks.
Honestly, what I want to say can’t be typed into an email as all I’m seeing is red mist at the moment. But luckily my good friend Wayne Denner has written a sensible article about Omoggle and I would recommend you raise this with staff so that they are aware and send the article link to parents.
Link – Omoggle and the PSL Scale – a guide for parents.
For Parents – Find the Right Words
Virgin Media and Internet Matters have released a wonderful new resource for parents/carers. Called ‘Find the Right Words’, the video and resources help with some of those difficult conversations about how to keep children safe online.
Link – Find the Right Words.
For Parents – Steam Parental Controls
Steam is a huge digital distribution platform for PC gaming and hugely popular with children and young people. Basically Steam acts as a storefront, installer, launcher and social network for 30,000 games. Because of the vast range of games, some of which will not be suitable for children, it’s important that parents understand the controls that are available to them on the Steam platform. Internet Matters have a 1-minute video on YouTube which will help with this.
