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Senior Facebook executives have said CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to keep "contrarian" Peter Thiel on the company's board after reading a business book by psychologist Adam Grant. Their comments are reported by BuzzFeed journalist and author Alex Kantrowitz in his book about Facebook, "Always Day One."Thiel is a controversial figure in…

On April 1, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emailed Nevada public health counterparts for lab reports on two travelers who had tested positive for the coronavirus. She asked Nevada to send those records via a secure network or a "password protected encrypted file” to protect…

This week openDemocracy and Foxglove, a tech justice start-up, sent a legal letter demanding the UK government urgently publishes details of its controversial patient data deals with big tech companies – struck at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. If we don’t get this information, we will consider suing for…

Privacy International expresses a qualified welcome for Palantir’s responses to questions about its data integration role in the NHS Covid-19 data store, but continues to raise concerns By Brian McKenna, Business Applications Editor Published: 07 May 2020 16:45 Civil liberties campaigning group Privacy International continues to question the role of…

Technology companies helping to fight the coronavirus are policing themselves to protect consumer data in the absence of a comprehensive U.S. statute and only a few state privacy laws. The companies are taking voluntary steps based on Europe’s privacy law, such as restricting the types of data they collect and…

Faculty Science Ltd, a London-based technology company, has worked extensively on digital solutions for improving communication with the public on over 200 artificial intelligence projects since its inception in 2014, and is currently working at the heart of the UK government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The AI startup Faculty,…

As a founder, there comes a time when you need a business plan, complete with financial forecasts, income statements, and fancy graphs that will impress your investors. Don't build it from scratch - use an existing model.  A financial model allows you to draft financial projections easily, fast, and in…

Today I am so happy to announce a big improvement in the cyber threats observatory (available for here). The main improvement sees the introduction of clustering stereotypes for each tracked malware family in three different behaviors: Domains, Files and Processes. Every malware does specific actions on domains, files and processes realms by meaning that every sample contacts several domain…

Technology is not inherently democratic and its human rights impacts are particularly important to consider in humanitarian and forced migration contexts. 1 May 2020 Pxfuel / (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication Refugees, immigrants, and people on the move have long been tied to tropes of bringing disease and illness. From…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente The Wall Street produced an intriguing piece the other day, “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for Covid-19,” which while picked up and signal-boosted by other venues — Business Insider, Daily Mail, Newsweek, Beckers Hospital Review (the best) — doesn’t…