Steve Jobs tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg about privacy in 2010 Quartz For Steve Jobs to be concerned, you know it’s bad.
Our old photos follow us online, and it’s become increasingly difficult to achievedistance from the past. That’s changed our politics and, perhaps, our thinking Atlanta's digital services have been held for ransom for several days. Jails and cops are using pen and paper.
↩︎ The RootWe need to destroy the election-rigging industry before it destroys usNew Statesman. “Let’s state the bleedin’ obvious. Soon Britain will hold a general election in which Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister. Anybody who thinks SCL/CA would have no skin in that game is naive.” (SCL is Cambridge Analytica’s parent company
The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop Counterpunch
via AFP: So here’s one for free…
Ever wondered if you’re under investigation? Whether the FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Rcmp or the AFP are investigating you? No, we’re not suggesting you go and buy a tin foil hat…
We’re about to tell you how you can find out for sure.
Remember the Phantom Secure company we shut down last week? The company that was selling encrypted communications devices that law enforcement couldn’t crack? We now control their website.
:)
You can check whether you are subject to investigation by entering your email address in the Phantom Secure website. Here’s the link: www.phantomsecure.com
Sydney Friday 27 April 2018
Media@Sydney | The future is union: Digital journalists pushback against employment insecurity
Speaker: Penny O’Donnell
A Sydney Ideas public lecture co-presented with Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) and Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC).
Nadia Urbinati, one of Italy’s most distinguished scholars, will analyse the main forces that are nowadays tearing apart more than a few democracies around the world, Italy included. In an unusual twist, Nadia Urbinati will concentrate less on the overt enemies of democracy than on those who pose as its friends: for instance, technocrats wedded to expert procedures; demagogues who make glib appeals to ‘the people’, and media platforms bent on turning politics into a sensational spectator sport and citizens into fans of opposing teams.
Drawing on Italian and other examples, Urbinati will make a spirited defence of the political importance of public opinion making and the need to recognise that in a democracy bitter conflicts and messy compromises are normal, and to be welcomed by citizens and representatives alike.
When: 6.00-7.30pm, Tuesday 17 April 2018
Where: Law School Foyer
Australian crypto exchanges are now under the authority of AUSTRAC
Protecting confidentiality it is critical for the
integrity of Australia’s tax and super systems, and in maintaining community
confidence in our administration of those systems.
Richard Boyle (@RichardBoyle16) | Twitter
The latest Tweets from Richard Boyle (@RichardBoyle16). Currently works as a Debt Recovery Specialist with the Australian Taxation Office. Adelaide, South Australia.
EXCLUSIVE: Several Labor MPs refused to participate in the rorts-for-votes scheme because of concerns the funding would breach parliamentary rules.
via AFP: So here’s one for free…
Ever wondered if you’re under investigation? Whether the FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Rcmp or the AFP are investigating you? No, we’re not suggesting you go and buy a tin foil hat…
We’re about to tell you how you can find out for sure.
Remember the Phantom Secure company we shut down last week? The company that was selling encrypted communications devices that law enforcement couldn’t crack? We now control their website.
:)You can check whether you are subject to investigation by entering your email address in the Phantom Secure website. Here’s the link: www.phantomsecure.com
Furious gunwoman opens fireat YouTube HQ, three people shot
Shooter, enraged by vid biz, kills self as hundreds of
staff flee campus
Under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, companies will be required to completely erase the personal data of any citizen who requests that they do so. For businesses that use blockchain, specifically applications with publicly available data trails such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, truly purging that information could be impossible. “Some blockchains, as currently designed, are incompatible with the GDPR,” says Michèle Finck, a lecturer in EU law at the University of Oxford. EU regulators, she says, will need to decide whether the technology must be barred from the region or reconfigure the new rules to permit an uneasy coexistence.
Here is more from Olga Kharif at Bloomberg.
Under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, companies will be required to completely erase the personal data of any citizen who requests that they do so. For businesses that use blockchain, specifically applications with publicly available data trails such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, truly purging that information could be impossible. “Some blockchains, as currently designed, are incompatible with the GDPR,” says Michèle Finck, a lecturer in EU law at the University of Oxford. EU regulators, she says, will need to decide whether the technology must be barred from the region or reconfigure the new rules to permit an uneasy coexistence.
Here is more from Olga Kharif at Bloomberg.
NOTE THE LINK is to google's links to the article because of the WSJ paywall - From Pericles to Now - the tribes define their own truth - What is Latitudional Truth
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been making prototypes depicting entities and relationships in large sets of documents
Keep It Simple, Stupid
Advice on life, art, and creativity
Something I realized recently, or maybe realized years ago, but only began practicing recently, is that the average human mind does not process complexity all that well. I mean, I’m certain people can handle complex thoughts, that they hear more than just one or two notes on the piano, but seven notes, nine notes, minor thirteenths — that’s asking a lot.
On Tuesday, Rex Sorgatz came out with the very timely book,
The Encyclopedia of Misinformation, the full subtitle of which is “A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery”. Today I’m happy to present an excerpt about the genesis and use of the laugh track on television. [The video insert on how the laff box worked is mine.] -jasonTrump: U.S. A “Third-World Country” In Many Cases, “It’s An Embarrassment” RealClearPolitics. UserFriendly: “Wow, out stumping already.” Moi: Would be nice if he had a real plan, as opposed to private-equity-enriching smoke and mirrors.
Facebook News: “Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data. We’ve heard loud and clear that privacy settings and other important tools are too hard to find and that we must do more to keep people informed. So in addition to Mark Zuckerberg’s announcements last week – cracking down on abuse of the Facebook platform, strengthening our policies, and making it easier for people to revoke apps’ ability to use your data – we’re taking additional steps in the coming weeks to put people more in control of their privacy. Most of these updates have been in the works for some time, but the events of the past several days underscore their importance. Making Data Settings and Tools Easier to Find – Controls that are easier to find and use.We’ve redesigned our entire settings menu on mobile devices from top to bottom to make things easier to find. Instead of having settings spread across nearly 20 different screens, they’re now accessible from a single place. We’ve also cleaned up outdated settings so it’s clear what information can and can’t be shared with apps….”
Sydney Friday 27 April 2018
Media@Sydney | The future is union: Digital journalists pushback against employment insecurity
Speaker: Penny O’Donnell
What's in your data archive?
Are you starting to feel more and more queasy about your privacy
these days? Do you have a sense that technology’s tentacles have reached into
all aspects of your life and you don’t have a clue about how to get rid of
them?
As we moved around the web Monday in search of media stories, we
found a growing collection of articles that are exposing some of the harder
truths about tech companies and technology. We also found plenty of news and
fallout from the Facebook data scandal.
Here are some stories and links that we think will make you
smarter (or maybe even more worried, if that’s possible) about technology and
data.
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First, if you haven’t done this yet, it’s time to see what
Facebook has on you. You can download
your archive here.
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Prepare yourself, though. Google has just as much date from you,
if not more, as this 33-message Twitter
thread makes clear. (Don’t worry, we’ve used the Thread Reader
app, to make it easier to scroll.)
·
Facebook had to acknowledge late Sunday that it was keeping
records of Android users’ calls and texts.
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Mashable points out that every user of the platform is working
for Facebook — generating data for advertisers and content for the advertisers
to build around. Shouldn’t
you get paid?
·
What’s the
link between the Facebook data breach and the crash of a self-driving Uber
car? It’s this, writes Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic: We made the decision
long ago to let Facebook govern itself and look what happened. Will the same
thing happen with Uber?
·
Fast Company surveyed hundreds of parents about how much screen
time their kids use. The
answers were “candid, scary – and sometimes hopeful.”
·
Axios has this helpful roundup
of all the ways tech has screwed up this past week.
RELATED: Catching
you up on the latest Facebook news:
·
Pep Boys is the latest company to suspend
Facebook ads after the data breach.
·
Facebook’s stock slid after it was announced the FTC was investigating
the scandal.
·
Congress wants
to grill Facebook, Google and Twitter about their privacy practices.
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Facebook’s popularity has plummeted, according to an Axios poll.
And the New Yorker
chimes in with How
To Fix Facebook.A Sydney Ideas public lecture co-presented with Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) and Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC).
Nadia Urbinati, one of Italy’s most distinguished scholars, will analyse the main forces that are nowadays tearing apart more than a few democracies around the world, Italy included. In an unusual twist, Nadia Urbinati will concentrate less on the overt enemies of democracy than on those who pose as its friends: for instance, technocrats wedded to expert procedures; demagogues who make glib appeals to ‘the people’, and media platforms bent on turning politics into a sensational spectator sport and citizens into fans of opposing teams.
Drawing on Italian and other examples, Urbinati will make a spirited defence of the political importance of public opinion making and the need to recognise that in a democracy bitter conflicts and messy compromises are normal, and to be welcomed by citizens and representatives alike.
When: 6.00-7.30pm, Tuesday 17 April 2018
Where: Law School Foyer