Thursday, July 08, 2021

A privacy resource.

https://www.bespacific.com/privacy-design-strategies-and-the-gdpr-a-systematic-literature-review/

Privacy Design Strategies and the GDPR: A Systematic Literature Review

Saltarella M., Desolda G., Lanzilotti R. (2021) Privacy Design Strategies and the GDPR: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Moallem A. (eds) HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12788. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77392-2_16

Article 25 of the GDPR states that data collection, processing and management measures should be implemented following tṇhe privacy by design and privacy by default paradigms. This paper presents a systematic literature review to identify useful guidelines to support the development of GDPR-compliant software. Selected papers are categorized under 8 different data-oriented and process-oriented strategies and their contributions are reported. Future activities will highlight the HCI community’s attitude towards these new technical and organizational approaches in order to bridge the identified gaps and shortcomings…”





For anti-social me.

https://www.bespacific.com/event-highlights-and-action-items-25-solutions-from-the-social-media-summit-mit/

Event Highlights and Action Items: 25 Solutions From The Social Media Summit @ MIT

On April 22, 2021, the IDE hosted The Social Media Summit @ MIT (#SMSMIT), which attracted more than 20,000 virtual attendees to learn about the most-pressing topics of the day. The event brought together business, policy, and academic experts to discuss social media trends and to offer actionable solutions that—as moderator Sinan Aral pointed out—can help “steer us toward the promise of digital technologies and away from the perils.” This special report offers a six-point roadmap for platform reform –from rescuing truth, to restoring free speech; ensuring transparency to humanizing design. “We need all of these oars rowing in the same direction at once for substantive change to occur,” said Aral.”





For this anti-social guy

https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1002367/trump-social-media-lawsuits

Trump's social media lawsuits are strategic, performative, and doomed

One member of this class action is not like the others

Former President Donald Trump announced himself on Wednesday as the lead plaintiff in class action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google, as well as their respective CEOs.

"We're demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and canceling that you know so well," he told reporters at his New Jersey golf course, arguing "there's no better evidence that big tech is out of control than [that] they banned the sitting president of the United States earlier this year." With these lawsuits, then, Trump will stand athwart big tech yelling, Stop! Please let me join you! I very much would like to be part of the extremely cool stuff you're doing here!

If that rallying cry seems nonsensical, well, so is the entire project, if taken at face value. Its real value for Trump is indirect. These don't seem to be lawsuits designed to succeed in court so much as tools of public relations and fundraising. They are strategic, performative, sometimes downright silly, and almost certainly legally doomed.



(Related)

https://thenextweb.com/news/making-facebook-follow-first-amendment-catastrophic?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

Why making Facebook follow the First Amendment would be catastrophic

Free Speech? I do not think that phrase means what you think it means





Is this like the government going underground?

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/german-data-protection-commissioner-tells-countrys-government-organizations-to-shut-down-their-facebook-pages-by-january-2022/

German Data Protection Commissioner Tells Country’s Government Organizations To Shut Down Their Facebook Pages by January 2022

Germany’s data protection commissioner (DPC) has been one of the toughest in the EU on Big Tech, and apparently no longer has faith in Facebook to properly secure government pages. German government organizations have been told that they should shut down their official Facebook Pages by January 2022 or face potential enforcement action under data privacy laws.





Eventually, we will all agree on the rules. Eventually.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/eu-tech-chief-shoots-down-one-of-apples-strongest-arguments-privacy-and-security-cannot-be-used-as-defenses-against-antitrust-charges/

EU Tech Chief Shoots Down One of Apple’s Strongest Arguments: “Privacy and Security” Cannot be Used as Defenses Against Antitrust Charges

As Apple fends off a variety of lawsuits and antitrust probes around the world, one of the chief arguments it has put forward for its “walled garden” practices is that they are essential for high levels of privacy and security. Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, is having none of it.

Vestager warned Apple that its antitrust issues cannot be dispelled simply by invoking privacy and security concerns. She has previously proposed rules that would require Apple to allow sideloading and third-party app stores on its devices, and has pointedly said that she believes privacy and security would not be compromised if this were the case.





Ye Olde stuff…

https://www.bespacific.com/oldest-book-of-english-literature-in-the-world-available-to-browse-online-for-the-first-time/

Oldest book of English literature in the world available to browse online for the first time

University of Exeter: “One of the oldest books of English literature in the world – created more than 1,000 years ago – is now available for anyone to browse online for the first time. The Exeter Book is one of the four most significant verse manuscripts to survive from the Anglo-Saxon period and contains the vast majority of all surviving Old English poetry. Its origins are a mystery. The new website and digital technology gives a fascinating glimpse into the production of the book, allowing people to explore doodles made a century ago of people and even an angel. Experts from the University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab and Exeter Cathedral have collaborated to create the new website. Their work, supported by a generous grant from the University’s Provost’s Fund, means high resolution images have been captured of each one of the Exeter Book’s 130-odd pages for the first time. The digital Exeter Book will be an exceptional resource and tool for researchers, teachers and students of English literature, and provides a chance for anyone to in close-up one of the rarest and most remarkable relics of the medieval past. For Ann Barwood, Canon Librarian of Exeter Cathedral and Honorary Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, the new digital resource is a solution to a centuries-old dilemma: “Of our many historical treasures, the Exeter Book has been the jewel in the crown of Exeter Cathedral for nearly a thousand years. It’s a vitally important piece of heritage for the whole of the English-speaking world…”





Writing in the digital era. I find rule number one inadequate!

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-write-professional-emails-rules/

How to Write Professional Emails? 8 Simple Rules to Live By



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