“Yesterday, Evernote announced some changes to its privacy policy that proved to be very controversial. To help with its machine learning efforts, some employees would gain the ability to see users’ personal notes.
The changes weren’t meant to go into effect until January 23, and now they won’t be. In fact, the firm has admitted that it has made a mistake, and is now trying to make sure that its users know that they can still trust it.”
And really, shouldn’t they have known better? Maybe stop and think before violating your user’s privacy?
First off, the headline is accurate, it is very likely that your company doesn’t care about really developing you, unless they have a specific benefit from it. Secondly, this is just a sad statement on management today: “Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and…
So I’ve been trying out both the free version and the Status version of MSGTAG. Here’s my thoughts on the subject. Does it do what it sets out to do? Yes, when you download the program and enable tagging, there’s an HTML footer added to the end of your messages. In the free version it’s…
I was just having a conversation with someone about this the other day. In the US, when your employer issues you a computer, or a smartphone, as part of your job, they own everything on that device. Storing your own information on it, makes that information accessible to your employer pretty much whenever they want…
Your government at work. These are the people responsible for protecting all of the personal information that is included with your taxes, and they can’t even find all of their own computers in order to upgrade them, and some of the ones they have found, are still running 12 year old versions of Windows Server….
I actually meant to say something about this awhile back. For a long time I looked at people who worked with dual monitors and thought to myself “meh”. I never saw the attraction, or saw much benefit to having two. In fact, I kind of figured if I had that much desktop space to look…
I ran across this post about ReadTwit over the weekend and was immediately intrigued. I’ve watched as Twitter has become a source of interesting links being passed around by the folks I follow, I’m missing some really great information. Now, as I’ve said before, I have no desire, nor the time, to try and read…
