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Linked – The Flu is Everywhere! So… How Do You Get Employees to Take a Sick Day?
This is true, what is also true is that most of these things would be mitigated, and the spread of the virus also mitigated, by having remote employees. The reasons vary as to why workers didn’t use all of their paid sick leave: roughly 73% said they weren’t sick enough, 37% wanted to save them…
Linked: Twitter transgression proves why its flawed 2FA system is such a privacy trap
This is such a bad look for Twitter: “The site said it may have inadvertently used email addresses and phone numbers provided for 2FA and other security purposes to match users to marketing lists provided by advertisers. ” Privacy and security advocates have enough of a hill to climb to get people to implement something…
Linked – Here’s Amazon’s explanation for the Alexa eavesdropping scandal
I suppose this is possible…. Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like “Alexa.” Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a “send message” request. At which point, Alexa said out loud “To whom?” At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customers contact list. Alexa…
