“It’s one aspect of a tech policy problem that has been plaguing us for at least 25 years: technologists and policymakers don’t understand each other, and they inflict damage on society because of that. But it’s worse today. The speed of technological progress makes it worse. And the types of technology — especially the current…
“The 19,000 hashes have been “given to five global internet companies [Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo], who had volunteered to conduct a robust test on the list through their systems during the implementation period.” The hashes, created during the implementation stage, were sourced from images forensically captured on the Home Office Child Abuse Image…
“IT ALWAYS seemed improbable that Marriott was the only one. Last year the hotel chain paid $600,000 to America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to settle a complaint that it had blocked customers’ personal wireless modems and hotspots at “at least one” of its hotels, forcing customers to sign up for expensive in-house internet access instead….
From a British study on the dangers of kids being approached by dangerous people online, I noticed this little nugget: “The report, called Digital Dangers, found that nearly half of young people living at home say their parents only know some of their online activities. And one in ten said their parents knew nothing about…
“As the Internet of Things continues to expand, so too will the sources of potentially material evidence. Xively, a part of LogMeIn, claims to connect 400 million devices, from usual suspects like computers down to individual light switches. The usefulness of that information those devices collect will continue to increase as IoT manufacturers improve their…
Gee, this doesn’t seem fairly crappy at all. Use an ad-blocker? Want that company to decide which ads you can see and which you can’t based mostly on who’s willing to pay them and agree to some “policy” that you don’t really get any say in as a user? That’s not exactly giving the end-user…