Linked: Covid-19 pandemic could change the face of data privacy

Linked: Covid-19 pandemic could change the face of data privacy

There are no easy answers here. If I had the virus and Apple could dip into the location history of my phone and see who I may have come into contact with, and get to those people for early diagnosis, I might want them to do that, right? “According to published reports, the US government…

Why Section 230 Actually Matters For the Internet as we Know It
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Why Section 230 Actually Matters For the Internet as we Know It

I found this article from The Hill to be rather enlightening on the subject of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Because it shows that most of the critics of it, on both sides of the political spectrum, simply don’t understand what it is. Most of them seem to think it either: Frees big…

Do We Teach The Wrong Math?
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Do We Teach The Wrong Math?

I’ve been catching up with some older podcasts that I’ve been meaning to listen to lately, and one of them was a Freakonomics episode entitled “America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up” In it, Steve Levitt posits that the math we teach in high school is outdated, and unnecessary in today’s modern age of technology, and…

Linked: The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
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Linked: The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing

This is a really good reminder to not rely on a third-party to be the home of all of your stuff. You may end up losing it forever. Despite the constant flurries of social startups (Vine! Snapchat! TikTok! Ello! Meerkat! Peach! Path! Yo!), when the dust was blown off the chisel, the 2010s revealed that…

Linked: How to safely erase your iPad, iPhone or Mac before returning it
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Linked: How to safely erase your iPad, iPhone or Mac before returning it

If you got a new iPhone, iPad or MacBook device for the holidays this year, great for you. I hope you really enjoy your new device. If you’re considering what to do with your old device, there are a lot of choices. You could try and sell it, you could give it a friend or…

What I’m Sharing (weekly)

What I’m Sharing (weekly)

Shifting the e-Discovery Paradigm from Documents to People What is RSS? How Can You Use It? Google adds auto-delete option for your location history and activity data Apple Clamps Down on Companies Helping You to Limit Your iPhone Time Stupid Is as Stupid Does “Hot for Security reported that 42% if drives sold on eBay…