Privacy Concerns

Nearly a week before the World Health Organization first warned of a mysterious new respiratory disease in Wuhan, China, a team of Boston-based sleuths at the global disease monitoring system HealthMap captured digital clues about the outbreak from an online press report. That same day, December 30, ProMED, another digital…

Weird times call for weird measures, and that means thousands and thousands of people using a business video conferencing app to show off their cats to their friends during a nationwide quarantine. Zoom has gotten a bunch of interest in the past few weeks as Americans scramble to figure out…

In October 2019, Mark Zuckerberg was grilled on the Senate floor about Facebook’s controversial content moderator apparatus, which has been reported in many instances to be inhumane. Its estimated 15,000 content moderators—some employed directly; some contracted through third parties—work long days at low pay (as little as $28,800 a year),…

Source: Android Central An event like the COVID-19 outbreak shows just what can be done with data collection. The same data collection that was happening before the pandemic. Right now that's easier to see than ever as data collection and processing companies have found ways to track the movement of…

Let’s assume you have some sort of central IT application managing your accounts, customers, suppliers, products and locations in your organization today. It may be one of your (or the) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. It may also be a bespoke-developed solution using a relational…

Sanda Stanca / EyeEm / Getty For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Peering into the glowing screen of your laptop, you can't smell the incense from a thurible. But in the face of pandemic, communities of faith around the world are…

Remote work can be much safer with the right cyber‑hygiene practices in place – multi‑factor authentication is one of them If you happen to be working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you should beef up your logins with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), or sometimes called Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). That way,…

Source: Rene Ritchie / iMore It's been clear for some time now that Apple's plans for Augmented Reality are far greater than being able to look through your phone as though it were a window into another world. Apple Glasses have been rumored and speculated upon for years now, but…

REUTERS/Andreas Gebert Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook isn’t looking to share users’ location data with the US government to help it track the coronavirus. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that the government is in talks with the tech industry about leveraging smartphone location data to combat the disease, raising privacy…

Five senators have sent letters to Google and the White House raising privacy concerns over the new screening website run by Google that Donald Trump announced Friday.Trump initially announced that Google was building a website to coordinate nationwide screenings for coronavirus. Google later clarified that Verily, a subsidiary, was making…