Thank
you for your cooperation, citizen.
Mallika
Kallingal reports:
Kentucky is taking severe measures to ensure residents exposed to the coronavirus stay at home. Louisville residents who have been in contact with coronavirus patients but refuse to isolate themselves are being made to wear ankle bracelets.
A judge has ordered one resident to stay at home after refusing to self-quarantine. CNN affiliate WDRB reports that the person, identified as D.L. in the court order, is living with “someone who has tested positive for the illness and another person who is a presumptive case,” according to an affidavit from Dr. Sarah Moyer, director of the health department.
Read
more on CNN.
Tools.
Microsoft
Launches Free Zero Trust Assessment Tool
Microsoft
last week announced the availability of a tool designed to help
organizations see where they are in their journey to implement a zero
trust security model.
Nupur
Goyal, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, told
SecurityWeek
that
the
tool is
free and available to anyone.
“Our
assessment tool will help orgs assess readiness across identities,
devices, apps, infrastructure, network and data, and then provide
go-dos and deployment guidance to help them reach key milestones,”
Goyal said.
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And
a link to an article.
Cartoon:
The Privacy Paradox
… I
recently wrote an article about the privacy paradox: The
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it on SSRN for free.
Ah,
the wonders of technology.
‘Scared
to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System
Teel
Lidow couldn’t quite believe the numbers. Over the past few years,
the nation’s largest telecom companies, like Comcast and AT&T,
have had a combined 330 million customers. Yet annually an average
of just 30 people took the companies to arbitration,
the forum where millions of Americans are forced to hash out legal
disputes with corporations.
Mr.
Lidow, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a law degree, figured there
had to be more people upset with their cable companies. He was
right. Within a few months, Mr. Lidow found more than 1,000 people
interested in filing arbitration
claims
against the industry.
About
the same time last year, Travis Lenkner and his law partners at the
firm Keller Lenkner had a similar realization. Arbitration
clauses bar
employees at many companies from joining together to mount
class-action lawsuits. But what would happen, the lawyers wondered,
if those workers started filing tens of thousands of arbitration
claims all at once? Many companies, it turns out, can’t handle the
caseload.
Hit
with about 2,250 claims in
one day last summer, for example, the delivery company
DoorDash was “scared to death” by the onslaught, according to
internal documents unsealed in February in federal court in
California.
To
be determined?
Europe’s
Tech Czar Says Strict Rules Will Build Public Trust in AI
Margrethe
Vestager, once Silicon Valley’s top foe, may turn into its best
ally by pushing for the tighter oversight that Big Tech says it needs
to be saved from itself.
As
European Union competition chief since 2014, Vestager has targeted
Alphabet’s Google, Amazon.com, Apple, and Facebook, among others,
for allegedly abusing their market positions or dodging taxes. Her
heavy fines and penalties earned the EU antitrust watchdog a
reputation around the world as one of the only regulators unafraid to
stand up to U.S. tech giants.
Now,
in a beefed-up role as the bloc’s
tech czar —her
formal title is executive vice president of the European Commission
for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age—she’s responsible not only
for enforcing rules as antitrust cop but also for designing broader
tech policies. Vestager, who took on the job at the end of 2019, is
clear about her
mission:
to lay down the law so European citizens feel safe in the digital
world amid ballooning corporate power, rapid technological
developments, and growing disillusionment among users about how the
largest tech platforms handle their personal data. Her plan to use
regulation to restore trust in technology—starting with artificial
intelligence—is something even Google and Facebook Inc. are
conceding is necessary for the sake of their businesses.
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SMART
TOILET USES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAMERA TO DETECT HEALTH
CONDITIONS AND ‘ANAL PRINT’
A
smart toilet capable of detecting early warning signs of cancer
and
other serious diseases has been developed by scientists in the US.
Researchers
at Stanford University built the device using an upward-facing
camera, test strips and artificial
intelligence to
analyse faeces and urine as they pass through.
The
disease-detecting technology could negate traditional stool tests and
prove particularly useful for people who are genetically predisposed
to certain conditions.
Meals
for shut-ins.
Open
Source Cookbook
Open
Source Cookbook –
“Open
source recipes to be used in a quarantine during a global pandemic –
This cookbook is meant to be an open source toolkit that everyone and
anyone can access during a time of heightened need. There are
recipes from chefs, line cooks, home cooks, mothers, fathers, nonnas,
popo’s and everyday joes.” At launch, it features recipes from
Toronto’s top chefs and restaurants…” The recipes (118 pages
so far) may be view in PDF or on the web – include detailed
instructions and photos along with the names of the contributors –
reminiscent of the early web (1995-2000).
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free daily lessons, weekly quizzes, and monthly challenges.
…
Mondly
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keep learning no matter which device you use. You can even access
Mondly’s
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you want to unlock the entire catalog of language-learning content.
Mondly
offers a staggering 41 languages for you to learn, as well as a range
of languages to learn from. While most language-learning apps only
let you choose English as your native language, Mondly lets you
choose from 40 of the other languages available.
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