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Biases are seeping into software
Motherboard files legal complaint against London police to force it to explain why an officer bought creepy, potential illegal stalkerware
Has Logan Paul changed? YouTube doesn’t seem to think so.
Apple says Chinese iCloud accounts are safe, Reporters Without Borders says otherwise.
One journalist went all-in on connecting her apartment to the internet, but her experiences might make you think twice about doing the same.
*What stark revisionism this is.
https://mashable.com/2018/01/30/strava-fitness-tracking-apps-data-privacy/#0Pmq2llaliOO
Your fitness tracker knows too much about you.
Where you jog, where you work,...
Gewährleistung eines hohen Datenschutzniveaus im Bildungsbereich
Vereinfachung und Beschleunigung der Verwaltung in Verbindung mit Schulwechseln und Schuleintritten sowie Reduktion des Verwaltungsaufwands an den SchulenInhalt
Anpassung betroffener gesetzlicher Bestimmungen im Bildungsbereich an die geänderten Rahmenbedingungen
Einführung eines Datenverbundes zwischen den SchulenHauptgesichtspunkte des Entwurfs
Im Bereich des Schul- und Hochschulwesens bestehen spezifische datenschutzrechtlich relevante Regelungen vor allem im Bildungsdokumentationsgesetz, aber auch im Schulunterrichtsgesetz, im Schulunterrichtsgesetz für Berufstätige, Kollegs und Vorbereitungslehrgänge, im Schulpflichtgesetz 1985, im BIFIE-Gesetz 2008, im Hochschulgesetz 2005, sowie im Schülerbeihilfengesetz 1983. Diese Regelungen sind auf ihre Vereinbarkeit mit der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) zu überprüfen und gegebenenfalls anzupassen.
Die Weiterführung des bewährten Datenverbundes der Universitäten und Pädagogischen Hochschulen, erweitert um die Fachhochschulen und Fachhochschul-Studiengänge sowie die Privatuniversitäten, soll nunmehr über die geschaffene "gemeinsame Verantwortlichkeit" der beteiligten Bildungseinrichtungen ermöglicht werden. Neben den Regelungen des Datenverbundes soll mit der Verankerung des "Austrian Education Systems Network" für den universitären und hochschulischen Bereich ausschließlich zum Zweck der Gewährleistung der ordentlichen Verwaltung und Durchführung von gemeinsamen Studienprogrammen und gemeinsam eingerichteten Studien eine eigene gesetzliche Grundlage geschaffen werden
Die notwendigen Änderungen des Bildungsdokumentationsgesetzes werden weiters zum Anlass genommen, auch im Bereich der Schulen einen dem universitären und hochschulischen Bereich nachgebildeten Datenverbund der Schulen zu implementieren. Dieser soll zur Vollziehung der mit der Aufnahme von Schülerinnen/Schülern in Zusammenhang stehenden Rechtsvorschriften eingerichtet werden, dient dem Zweck der Vollständigkeit und der Richtigkeit der bei einem Schulwechsel in den lokalen Evidenzen zu verarbeitenden Schülerdaten und soll den derzeit nicht unerheblichen Verwaltungsaufwand an den Schulstandorten bei der Aufnahme von Schülerinnen/Schülern verringern.
Half a billion dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency was stolen—that’s gotten people’s attention.
In a textbook example of the use of big data to create a digital poorhouse, as described in Virginia Eubanks's excellent new book Automating Inequality, the Australian government created an algorithmic, semi-privatised system to mine the financial records of people receiving means-tested benefits and accuse them of fraud on the basis of its findings, bringing in private contractors to build and maintain the system and collect the penalties it ascribed, paying them a commission on the basis of how much money they extracted from poor Australians
https://factordaily.com/housejoy-amazon-india-home-services/
Amazon is a step closer to sell everything online in India, including on-demand home services. This means that in the near future, a...
Over the course of the last several years, every major social platform has been plagued by fake news. Now Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has a fake news problem of its own.
Because of how the search engine’s autofill feature works, people who visit Bing looking for news videos may be redirected to a flood of fake news videos, all generated by a single source. You can see how it works for yourself: click on the “News” tab from Bing’s homepage. The page autofills the search bar with “Top stories.” Now travel to any other search tab, including “Maps” or “Images” and you’ll see that the search bar retains the “Top stories” query. Autofilling “Top stories” into the search bar appears to be an innocuous design decision — until you hit the...
Over the course of the last several years, every major social platform has been plagued by fake news. Now Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has a fake news problem of its own.
Because of how the search engine’s autofill feature works, people who visit Bing looking for news videos may be redirected to a flood of fake news videos, all generated by a single source. You can see how it works for yourself: click on the “News” tab from Bing’s homepage. The page autofills the search bar with “Top stories.” Now travel to any other search tab, including “Maps” or “Images” and you’ll see that the search bar retains the “Top stories” query. Autofilling “Top stories” into the search bar appears to be an innocuous design decision — until you hit the...
Amazon has been granted a pair of patents for a wristband that can pinpoint the location of warehouse employees and track their hand movements in real time. The patents, first spotted by GeekWire, describe an inventory management system comprised of trackers and receivers used to monitor workers’ performance. The original patents were both filed back in 2016 but were granted on January 30th.
Australian national broadcaster ABC has gotten hold of a massive trove of state secrets that were inadvertently sold off in a pair of cheap, locked filing cabinets purchased from a Canberra junk-shop that specialises in government surplus furniture
Satori is built to turn routers, thermostats, and other household devices into zombies.
For victims of revenge porn and other explicit material shared without consent, legal remedies have arrived only within the last decade. But thanks to AI-assisted technology, anyone with an online presence could now end up starring in pornography against their will — and there’s little that the law can do about it.
After it launched with mixed reviews, more than 100 child development experts, health advocacy groups, educators, and parents have called on Facebook to shut down Messenger Kids, a spinoff of the company’s messenger app that’s specifically designed for children ages six to 12. The collective, led by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, addressed its open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, warning that the app is “harmful to children and teens,” and that it could “undermine children’s healthy development.”