It
is never easy to rush new systems into use. (Probably not too
serious.)
Nearly
8,000 small businesses seeking relief loans may have had personal
data shared with other applicants
… The
SBA notified nearly 8,000 business owners of the potential
inadvertent disclosure of information, which included names, Social
Security numbers, tax identification numbers, addresses, dates of
birth, email, phone numbers, marital and citizenship status,
household size, income, disclosure inquiry and financial and
insurance information, according to a letter sent to business owners,
which CNBC obtained.
… If
the user attempted to hit the page back button, he or she may have
seen information that belonged to another business owner, not their
own.
Better
tools.
Browser
maker Vivaldi now has a built-in tracker blocker that uses DuckDuckGo
tech
Vivaldi
is launching the 3.0 version of its browser, and it includes an
integrated tracker blocker made in partnership with DuckDuckGo. The
company’s Android version of its browser is also leaving beta.
The
new tracker blocker in Vivaldi uses the same blocklist as
DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Essentials browser
extension.
Announced in March, that blocklist is based on data from
DuckDuckGo’s Tracker
Radar,
which regularly crawls the web to identify new trackers to block.
Vivaldi
is also adding a built-in ad-blocker in version 3.0, but it will be
disabled by default. The browser already let you block ads that were
misleading or contained malware by flipping on a
setting in Vivaldi.
Another
perspective.
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/what-to-expect-from-brazils-general-data-protection-law/
What
to Expect From Brazil’s General Data Protection Law?
The
European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has set in motion
a wave of privacy policies all around the world. One of the biggest
laws was the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) that went into
effect on the 1st of January, 2020. This law has affected 500,000
organizations worldwide. If that wasn’t enough, Brazil is right
behind the U.S in introducing its own Brazilian General Data
Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais – LGPD)
in early August, 2020. In this article we will look into the impact
of the LGPD law, its differences and similarities with the GDPR and
how it is set to further change the paradigm of digital data privacy
on a global scale.
… Unlike
the CCPA and GDPR, the LGPD does not take into account the size or
revenue of a company; instead, it focuses on the information a
company holds. Under article 3 of the LGPD, any organization that
performs the following tasks are liable to comply with the LGPD:
- Processing data within the territory of Brazil,
- Processing data of individuals who are within the territory of Brazil, regardless of where in the world the data processor is located,
- Processing data which is collected within the territory of Brazil.
How
dare you allow our citizens to complain!
Exclusive:
Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic -
sources
Facebook’s
local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing
local traffic to a crawl until it agreed to significantly increase
the censorship of “anti-state” posts for local users, two sources
at the company told Reuters on Tuesday.
To
their credit...
Mastercard
To Launch Online Course On Digital Ethics, Privacy And AI
A
partnership between The University of Oxford,
Saïd
Business School and
Mastercard
will
launch an online education program to teach business leaders about
the strengths and perils of the modern day internet.
Called
the Oxford
Cyber Future Program,
the six-week class will cover artificial intelligence, cybersecurity,
threat analytics, data privacy and digital ethics, a press release
states.
Perspective.
Who
will be the winners in a post-pandemic economy?
COVID-19
is putting the global economy into a tailspin. Many countries are
heading for very sudden and unprecedented recession. This crisis
will catalyze some huge changes. Few industries will avoid being
either reformed, restructured or removed. Agility, scalability and
automation will be the watchwords for this new era of business, and
those that have these capabilities now will be the winners.
Thanks
to government stimulus packages, liquidity is coming back to the
market. It will keep enough of the economy afloat so that it can
climb out of recession rapidly once the various lockdowns are lifted.
But the way much of it is structured means that it will likely
benefit already better capitalized larger businesses, over the
smaller operators who may struggle.
… As
president of a global technology firm, what intrigues me is where
there will be paradigm shifts, as opposed to just existing trends
either accelerating or decelerating.
For
instance, the shift from cash to digital payments is clearly
accelerating.
… In
the UK, ATM usage was already falling between 6% and 14% a year, but
has now plummeted by more than half.
… In
the workplace we’re already seeing a super-charging of the nascent
bring your own device (BYOD) trend in business technology. As people
scramble to work and socialize remotely, previously niche tools such
as Zoom, Slack, Microsoft’s Teams, and even the Houseparty app, are
suddenly supporting millions of personal and corporate interactions
every minute.
… To
create long-term resilience we will likely see further robotic
automation and artificial intelligence (AI) within our supply chains.
These technologies reduce manual intervention and hand-offs, cutting
transmission risks, and reducing the reliance on humans to work
face-to-face. They can also enable production to scale and shrink in
response to sudden demand.
(Related)
All
the things COVID-19 will change forever, according to 30 top experts
Tech
exec, VCs, and analysts—from WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart to AOL
cofounder Steve Case—on the pandemic’s lasting impact on how we
live, work, and think.
Write
what I mean, not what I say? (Student papers I can read?)
Microsoft
Word’s AI wants to rewrite your crappy sentences
Microsoft
has released a handy new tool for writers struggling to turn their
ingenious ideas into words.
The
feature is a new addition to Rewrite Suggestions, an AI-powered
editor for Word that was first unveiled
at the 2019 Microsoft Build conference.
The
tool initially only offered ideas on different ways to express a
phrase, but the update adds suggestions for entire sentences.
The
feature is currently only available for users of Word on the web with
a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription, but Microsoft plans to
extend it to desktop and mobile versions in the future.
Stuff
to do while in quarantine.
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