“I’m
shocked, shocked I tell you.”
No
Facebook is not protecting your privacy
Privacy
International:
“…Privacy International recently tested the feature to download
all ‘Ads and Business’ related information (You can accessed it
by Clicking on Settings > Your Facebook Information > Download
Your Information). This is meant to tell users which advertisers
have been targeting them with ads and under which circumstances. We
found that information provided is less than accurate. To put it
simply, this
tool is not what Facebook claims.
The list of advertisers is incomplete
and changes over time…
- Despite Facebook claim, “Download Your Information” doesn’t provide users with a list of all advertisers who uploaded a list with their personal data
- As a user this means you can’t exercise your rights under GDPR because you don’t know which companies have uploaded data to Facebook
- Information provided about the advertisers is also very limited (just a name and no contact details), preventing users from effectively exercising their rights
- Recently announced Off-Facebook feature comes with similar issues, giving little insight into how advertisers collect your personal data and how to prevent such data collection..”
Which
do you prefer, Private or Healthy?
How
China is using AI and big data to fight the coronavirus
Sitting
at the entrance of Chengdu's East Railway Station, Fu Guobin stared
at a screen displaying infrared images of people passing through the
station's gates. As each person entered, a number popped up next to
their image indicating their body temperature.
"This
is making my life much easier," the station employee said as he
sat in his booth. "Before this, I'd have to test everyone's
temperature with an ear thermometer. And sometimes that doesn't work
- I think this new system is much better."
… Fu
said so far there's only been one instance where he's had to inform
health officials about a passenger, a woman from Henan whose fever
stood at 37.9 degrees Celcius.
… If
she did carry the virus, the hospital would inform transport
authorities, who would in turn alert every single passenger in her
wagon, according to Fu. The authorities can do this because they
keep track of every passenger via rules that require people to use
their real names to use public transport.
… Ren,
a restaurant owner who works in Hubei, the province at the centre of
the epidemic, said local police showed up at his home in western
Sichuan province where he had returned for the Chinese New Year
celebrations on January 23 and ordered him to quarantine himself for
14 days.
… The
following day, Ren, who asked to be identified only by his surname,
went to a nearby farm to harvest cabbage and radishes for the New
Year's eve dinner. As he arrived, he received a phone call from the
local authorities telling him to return home immediately.
Ren
said he believes local officials had tracked his movements using
surveillance cameras installed in his neighbourhood.
… Other
ways in which China is using big data in this outbreak include
tracking information on people's movements through their mobile
phones and rolling out mobile apps that allow users to find out if
they have come in contact with a confirmed coronavirus carrier.
For
instance, telecom company China Mobile sent numerous text messages to
media outlets about people confirmed to have the virus. These text
messages normally include information about a patient's travel
history and could be as detailed as the seat he or she sat on while
taking a specific train or even which subway train compartment they
boarded at a specific time. In the early days of the outbreak, media
outlets would post this information on social media, allowing people
to find out if they had come to close contact with confirmed patients
and then quarantine themselves if necessary.
Architecture.
Gartner
Predicts the Future of AI Technologies
Leading
organizations expect to double the number of artificial intelligence
(AI) projects in place within the next year, and over 40% of them
plan to actually deploy AI solutions by the end of 2020, according to
the Gartner
2020 CIO Agenda Survey.
But the reality is that most organizations struggle to scale the AI
pilots into enterprise wide production, which limits the ability to
realize AI’s potential business value.
…
One
of the top technology challenges in leveraging AI
techniques like
ML or deep neural networks (DNN) in edge
and
IoT
(Internet of Things) environments
is the complexity of data and analytics. Successfully
deploying production AI in such environments will require close
partnership between the business and IT. Proactively plan and
provide ready solutions when new business needs emerge — a concept
Gartner calls infrastructure-led disruption.
Also
for my Architecture students.
The
14 Reasons Six Sigma & Lean Don’t Work in Most Companies
Via
LLRX
–
The
14 Reasons Six Sigma & Lean Don’t Work in Most Companies –
David
Dibble,
an expert in systems-based sustainable organizational performance
improvement, contrasts contributors to under-performing or failed Six
Sigma and Lean programs with the Systems-Based Transformational
Leadership Model (STL).
Not
sure how to interpret this. There seems to be no facts behind these
opinions.
THE VERGE TECH SURVEY 2020
… Americans generally believe the biggest tech
companies have too much power and ought to be split up. Among survey
respondents:
- 56 percent said the government should break up tech companies if they control too much of the economy
- 72 percent said that Facebook has too much power
- 51 percent said Google and YouTube should be split into separate companies
With multiple investigations now underway against
the tech giants at both the state and federal levels — and with the
threat of even more regulation should a Democrat win the presidency —
there’s good cause for companies to pay attention to the rise of
anti-tech sentiment.
Mr
Zillman’s lists are amazingly complete.
Healthcare
Online Resources 2020
Via
LLRX
–
Healthcare
Online Resources 2020 –
Marcus
Zillman’s guide
is especially timely and pertinent as librarians, researchers, health
professionals, government officials and the public are seeking
accurate, reliable and up-to-date information on the coronavirus.
The discovery tools referenced include: healthcare databases,
directories, indices, data and analytics, subject guides, apps,
forums and search engines providing access to a wide range of
information from the healthcare and medical sectors that also
encompasses open access papers, analysis, registries, images and
reference sources.
For
my students? Maybe!
Get
Ready for the AI Ethicist
When
Jason
Tamara Widjaja started
looking to fill a role for an AI Ethicist for Singapore
pharmaceutical research house MSD
International,
he initially came up against a brick wall.
“It
was very, very hard to find this person,” Widjaja told the Gartner
Analytics Conference in Sydney in late February.
“I
went to the legal school, and then to the computing school, and then
I did find her—and yes a female—who was an engineer by training.
But it wasn’t easy. So we talk about Industry 4.0 jobs, well here
is one.”
Just
as the business world made way for a new role for the chief digital
officer, so in 2020—with the rise of AI and growing qualms about
its use—the new role of the AI
ethicist could be one of the hottest jobs of 2020.
And
as Widjaja explained, as companies roll out AI in all of its forms,
ethics and bias are increasingly hard to ignore.
Exactly
how my students approach homework? “Why do I teach here? Why?”
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