I never would have guessed.
Study:
Oklahomans lose an average of $4,100 to internet scams
A study found Oklahoman lost an average $4,154.02
to internet scams in 2017.
The study, conducted by CenturyLinkQuote, an
authorized reseller of Centurylink products, used FBI and Census data
to find how much victims lost to scams in each state.
Alaska is the 48th least-populated state, but its
sparse population doesn’t stop it from ranking the highest for
number of victims per capita. South and North Dakota rank just above
Alaska in terms of population, but they came in first and second,
respectively, with the least victims per capita.
High scam risk doesn’t correlate to high money
losses, the study found. Nevada experiences more scams than any state
besides Alaska, but Nevada victims lose the least amount of money in
scams. In all but two states, average victim losses per scam total
over $1,000 per person. But in Nevada, the average loss per scam is
just $6.53. In Colorado,
it’s just $7.12.
Oklahoma had 7.15 victims per 10,000 people to
Internet scams and lost about $11.64 million to Internet scams in
2017.
… Visit
https://www.centurylinkquote.com/resources/internet-scams-by-state/
to view the report.
Privacy pays dividends. Many still not GDPR
compliant!
Cisco 2019
Data Privacy Benchmark Study
Cisco newsroom: “Organizations worldwide that
invested in maturing their data privacy practices are now realizing
tangible business benefits from these investments, according to
Cisco’s
2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study. The Study validates the link
between good privacy practice and business benefits as respondents
report shorter sales delays as well as fewer and less costly data
breaches.
The European Union’s General Data Protection
Regulation, which focused on increasing protection for EU residents’
privacy and personal data, became enforceable in May 2018.
Organizations worldwide have been working steadily towards getting
ready for GDPR. Within Cisco’s 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study,
59 percent of organizations
reported meeting all or most requirements, 29 percent expect to do so
within a year, and 9 percent will take more than a year…”
How to “do” privacy.
Internet
Society Publishes Privacy Code of Conduct
… the
Internet Society published on Monday (International
Privacy Day) its Privacy Code of Conduct (PDF)
-- nine steps that all companies should take to ensure data privacy.
To mute the criticism or to make real change?
Stay tuned.
Facebook
hires one of its biggest privacy critics to oversee WhatsApp privacy
Facebook has hired Nate Cardozo, formerly the top
legal counsel at privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation and
a prominent Facebook
critic, to a privacy role at WhatsApp. The move comes as the social
media giant seeks to integrate the WhatsApp messenger product with
its Instagram and Facebook properties.
Adding Cardozo to the WhatsApp privacy ranks shows
how the company may be planning for future legal and lobbying
efforts. Facebook is facing scrutiny in the EU over its plans to
merge other social media properties with WhatsApp, with the Irish
Data Protection Commissioner saying the move could
be barred over privacy concerns.
Promises. Will they be there in version 2.0?
Aetna makes
an Apple Watch app—promises not to use activity data against you
Health insurance giant Aetna
has teamed up with Apple to create a health-tracking app for
Apple Watch that will have access to Aetna members’ medical data
and offer monetary rewards for meeting personalized wellness goals.
… For any Aetna members wary of sharing such
health tracking data with their insurer and Apple, the two companies
emphasized that the app was packed with security features (such as
continuous authentication) and privacy features (such as opt-in data
sharing choices). Perhaps most importantly, Aetna promised that the
“[i]nformation from this program will not be used for underwriting,
premium or coverage decisions.”
This is clever. No doubt Steven King novels will
be next.
Some of Google Home's
best features are the ones that are just for fun, like playing the
"I'm feeling lucky" game show, listening to different
animal sounds, and asking for interesting facts. Google is expanding
on that repertoire with storytelling sound effects for certain Disney
stories. Parents in the US can activate the new feature by saying
"Hey Google, let's read along with Disney." Their Home
device will then listen along and play appropriate sound effects and
music for the chosen story, which can be selected from a library of
11, with more to come.
The future has arrived! No help for the morning
commute.
Denver, RTD
launch free driverless shuttle on set route near airport
… The system launched on Tuesday and will run
free of charge every weekday from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the next few months.
The vehicles, made by EasyMile, hold up to 12
people and run at speeds between 12 and 15 miles per hour. While
there’s no driver on the shuttle, an “ambassador” will be on
board to answer questions and keep an eye on passenger safety.
An interesting collection. I’ll put my library
to work.
An AI
reading list — from practical primers to sci-fi short stories
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