It may not sound like a serous question, but it is. Whatever side you are on in terms of whether people should wear masks in public I can’t help but notice that there seems to be some inconsistency when it comes to facial recognition. I mean, if I were an all-powerful government official interested in…
And this is just one of the issues in the article below: Checkr is on the forefront of a new and potentially problematic kind of hiring, one that’s powered by still-emerging technology. Those hoping to quickly get extra work complain that Checkr and others using AI to do background checks aren’t addressing errors and mistakes…
I’m a day late on this, but didn’t want to let it go without mentioning the day, and the importance of better password management. Several times people choose easy-to-remember passwords rather than focusing on security. With the rising concerns over data breaches and troves of usernames and passwords being dumped on the dark web every…
Sarah’s post has some good info, but this is just unbelievable… “The Washington Post further reported that FCPS’s issues, in part, resulted from FCPS’s failure to apply software updates for nearly two years and refusal to migrate to more advanced and privacy-friendly software.” TWO YEARS!?!?!?!?!? People, people. Update your stuff. Apply patches, keep things relatively…
I haven’t seen a lot of what John refers to below, but I can believe it. “The device has to be able to “see” you and “hear” you. Your office machine can’t do that if you are working from home. That’s why many of us are looking at an empty desk chair or why we…
There are two things we know, for certain, when it comes to the encryption debate. 1. Law enforcement doesn’t like it, and wants a way to break it. 2. Any “backdoor” built in to encryption will, eventually, get misused. Now, the typical response to point number 2 is that “people with nothing to hide” shouldn’t…