Privacy, Parenting, and the VTech Breach

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I put a post out on the Common Sense Media blog about the VTech breach:

Late last week, news broke about a data breach at the popular game and toy manufacturer VTech. The initial description of the breach sounded fairly large: Nearly five million parent accounts and 200,000 student accounts were compromised. If we make the assumption that one account equals one person, that's the equivalent of a data breach that covers every person living in Wyoming, Vermont, the District of Columbia, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Delaware combined.

Read the whole post over at Common Sense.