Washington Post: “Here’s how you can opt out of carriers’ ad programs, which run on your personal data. When you signed up for your cellphone plan, your carrier may have signed you up for something extra: a program that uses data including your Internet history to target you with ads. I visited my own Verizon… Continue Reading
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Companies lose your data and then nothing happens
Vox: “…High-profile data breaches have been in the headlines for years. In 2013, Target lost the credit card, debit card, and other information of tens of millions of customers. In 2018, Marriott disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 500 million people; in 2020, it got hit again. In 2021, hackers got a bunch… Continue Reading
Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System
Wired: “For the past 15 years, police forces searching for criminals in Europe have been able to share fingerprints, DNA data, and details of vehicle owners with each other. If officials in France suspect someone they are looking for is in Spain, they can ask Spanish authorities to check fingerprints against their database. Now European… Continue Reading
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
The New yorker: “The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.” By Ronan Farrow – April 18, 2022. “…Commercial spyware has grown into an industry estimated to be worth twelve billion dollars. It is largely unregulated and increasingly controversial. In recent years, investigations by the… Continue Reading
Sensors are everywhere
Real KM – “As knowledge managers, should we limit the amount of information that sensors can collect? We must first understand and define what a sensor is: A device, which detects or measures a physical property and records, indicates, or otherwise responds to it. A device, module, machine, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect… Continue Reading
Americans are drowning in spam
Axios: “You’re not imagining it: The flood of spam calls, texts, emails and social media posts into your life is getting a lot bigger. Why it matters: Junk messages aren’t just annoying — they also open the door to more fraud, cybercrime and identity theft than ever before. Driving the news: The average American received… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 16, 2022
Via LLRX –Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 16, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
Wastewater can help us monitor Covid-19. What else can it tell us?
Vox: “The first signs of the most recent Covid-19 waves have often been detected in our sewers instead of nasal swabs. But in the future, the potential for human waste to tell us about what is happening with our community’s health could extend far beyond the novel coronavirus. “This has been its coming-out party. We’ve… Continue Reading
The Law of Social Roles for The Platform Internet
Mazzurco, Sari, The Law of Social Roles for The Platform Internet (February 21, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4040152 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4040152 “Social roles are integral to social life. Roles like teacher, judge, and employee help people navigate interactions by supplying them with meaning—specifically, societal expectations about actors’ appropriate behaviors in a particular relationship. In the emergent… Continue Reading
Social Security Card Replacement: How to Get a New One
CNET: “It’s not often you need to show your physical Social Security card. If you have the nine digits of your Social Security number memorized, you rarely need to pull out your card from its hiding spot. But in some cases, it may be necessary to show it — like when you’re getting a new… Continue Reading
How to Bypass Blocked Sites and Internet Restrictions
MakeUseOf: “Need to access a blocked website? Try these tips and tricks to bypass internet restrictions and view the content you want. It doesn’t matter where in the world you live; there are times when you’re going to come across blocked sites and a restricted internet. If you come across an internet block, don’t panic.… Continue Reading
Blockchain: Novel Provenance Applications
CRS Report – Blockchain: Novel Provenance Applications, April 8, 2022: “Blockchain, generally, is a database technology that records and stores information in blocks of data that are linked, or “chained,” together. Data stored on a blockchain are continually shared, replicated, and synchronized across the nodes in a network—individual computer systems or specialized hardware that communicate… Continue Reading
