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Who’s responsible for domestic abuse witnessed by online tutors?

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 6:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia


In a piece co-published by Wired and EdSurge last week, Emily Tate detailed a troubling facet of the burgeoning online video teaching industry. According to US-based English tutors she spoke with, some of their young students in China were being beaten and scolded by their parents for making mistakes during these lessons – on camera. Hundreds of thousands of children in China currently use online tutoring services to learn English, from platforms like QKids, Magic Ears, DaDa, Gogokid, and VIPKid (which has raised more than $800 million in funding since it was founded in 2014). Tate noted that of the two dozen…

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Who’s responsible for domestic abuse witnessed by online tutors?

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 6:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia


In a piece co-published by Wired and EdSurge last week, Emily Tate detailed a troubling facet of the burgeoning online video teaching industry. According to US-based English tutors she spoke with, some of their young students in China were being beaten and scolded by their parents for making mistakes during these lessons – on camera. Hundreds of thousands of children in China currently use online tutoring services to learn English, from platforms like QKids, Magic Ears, DaDa, Gogokid, and VIPKid (which has raised more than $800 million in funding since it was founded in 2014). Tate noted that of the two dozen…

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BBC: Russia is working on a Tor de-anonymization project

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 5:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian intelligence agency FSB (Federal Security Service). BBC Russia, which reported the breach, said “it’s possible that this is the largest data leak in the history of the work of Russian special services on the Internet.” The documents included descriptions of dozens of internal projects the company was working on, including ones on de-anonymization of users of the Tor browser and researching the vulnerability of torrents. A Tor network routes internet traffic through random relays across the world, allowing users to…

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BBC: Russia is working on a Tor de-anonymization project

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 5:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian intelligence agency FSB (Federal Security Service). BBC Russia, which reported the breach, said “it’s possible that this is the largest data leak in the history of the work of Russian special services on the Internet.” The documents included descriptions of dozens of internal projects the company was working on, including ones on de-anonymization of users of the Tor browser and researching the vulnerability of torrents. A Tor network routes internet traffic through random relays across the world, allowing users to…

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