Putin and Xi plot their SWIFT escape The Saker
Russia issues its list of demands Guardian
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Smartphones Are a New Tax on the Poor Wired
Over 6 millions Australians have used myGovID to access online government services, said Stuart Robert, the Minister responsible for digital transformation.
myGovID, handled by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), is the Australian government's digital identity provider and allows citizens to have their identity verified through a single channel to access government services rather than having to be verified individually by each Commonwealth entity.
Of that number of myGovIDs, more than half of them -- around 3.3 million -- were created in the past six months, the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) said.
How to Repair a Toxic Work Culture
The importance of team interaction, and avoiding distraction
KEY POINTS
- Discovering causes of distraction is key to fixing dysfunction.
- Team interaction is more important than who the members of the team are.
- Employees must feel safe to speak freely and share ideas.
- Discovering causes of distraction is key to fixing dysfunction.
- Team interaction is more important than who the members of the team are.
- Employees must feel safe to speak freely and share ideas.
1. In nuclear war simulations, most people choose the escalatory options
2. Reddit thread on which are the funniest comedies. Not many recent movies on that list
3. Charles R. Morris has passed away (NYT)
4. Samosa markets in everything?
5. Has Magnus Carlsen played his last world championship match?
6. Will Mexico City ban bullfighting?
7. A possible theory as to why Omicron might be safer— important if true.
The author is Jimmy Soni, and the subtitle is The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley.
It is illuminating on start-ups, the earlier history of Silicon Valley, and it is a fair treatment of Peter Thiel. It is an actual history of the company, based on a great deal of information, rather than a polemic on tech or the company’s founders.
Ball, K., Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance in the Workplace, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-43340-8, doi:10.2760/5137, JRC125716.
“This report re-evaluates the literature about surveillance/monitoring in the standard workplace, in home working during the COVID 19 pandemic and in respect of digital platform work. It utilised a systematic review methodology. A total of 398 articles were identified, evaluated and synthesised. The report finds that worker surveillance practices have extended to cover many different features of the employees as they work. Surveillance in the workplace targets thoughts, feelings and physiology, location and movement, task performance and professional profile and reputation. In the standard workplace, more aspects of employees’ lives are made visible to managers through data. Employees’ work/non-work boundaries are contested terrain. The surveillance of employees working remotely during the pandemic has intensified, with the accelerated deployment of keystroke, webcam, desktop and email monitoring in Europe, the UK and the USA. Whilst remote monitoring is known to create work-family conflict, and skilled supervisory support is essential, there is a shortage of research which examines these recent phenomena. Digital platform work features end-to-end worker surveillance. Data are captured on performance, behaviours and location, and are combined with customer feedback to determine algorithmically what work and reward are offered to the platform worker in the future. There is no managerial support and patchy colleague support in a hyper-competitive and gamified freelance labour market. Once again there is a shortage of research which specifically addresses the effects of monitoring on those who work on digital platforms. Excessive monitoring has negative psycho-social consequences including increased resistance, decreased job satisfaction, increased stress, decreased organisational commitment and increased turnover propensity. The design and application of monitoring, as well as the managerial practices, processes and policies which surround it influence the incidence of these psycho-social risks. Policy recommendations target at mitigating the psycho-social risks of monitoring and draw upon privacy, data justice and organisational justice principles. Numerous recommendations are derived both for practice and for higher level policy development.”
Electronic monitoring and surveillance in the workplace
Contents
- Hackers take $196 million from crypto exchange Bitmart, security firm says
- CNBC
- A Software Bug Let Hackers Drain $31M From a Crypto Service
- WiReD
- Australia's AI Cameras Catch Over 270,000 Drivers Using Phones
- Alice Klein
- Fake scientist used to spread anti-US propaganda
- Facebook via Dave Farber
- The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works.
- Quantum Magazine
- Verizon overrides users' opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history
- Ars Technica
- Planned Parenthood data breach
- WSJ
- Israeli computer glitch lets people improperly leave the country
- Winnews via danny burstein
- Israeli Company's Spyware Is Used to Target U.S. Embassy Employees in Africa
- NYTimes
- There's a new push for mobile voting in WashDC
- DCist via Gabe Goldberg
- U.S. Military Has Acted Against Ransomware Groups, General Acknowledges
- NYTimes
- Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight
- NYTimes
- Officials press for actionable recommendations from new cyber-advisory committee
- The Hill
- Quote of The Day
- WIDA
- Re: You've Got an Enemy at Chase!
- Paul Robinson
- Info on RISKS (comp.risks)