Well,
that didn’t take long – if it’s a Covid tracing tool. If not,
what are they using?
Andy
Meek reports:
As the Minnesota protests have spilled across the country, fueled by protestors angered over the police killing of an unarmed Minneapolis man named George Floyd, the protests have morphed into marches and demonstrations that have turned violent everywhere from New York City to Los Angeles. Curfews are being imposed in major cities around the US at the time of this writing, and at least eight states, as well as the District of Columbia, have requested the National Guard to assist local law enforcement.
In some cities like Minneapolis, though, officials are starting to turn to a familiar tool to investigate networks of protestors. The tool is contact-tracing, and it’s a familiar tool in that people have been hearing about it frequently in recent weeks as an important component of a comprehensive coronavirus pandemic response. According to Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harringon, officials there have been using what they describe, without going into much detail, as contact-tracing in order to build out a picture of protestor affiliations — a process that officials in the state say has led them to conclude that much of the protest activity there is being fueled by people from outside coming in.
Read
more on BGR.
(Related)
Innovation can work two ways...
Lessons
in Rapid Innovation From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Solving
problems during a crisis demands speeding up innovation by
repurposing the knowledge, resources, and technology you already have
at hand.
Tools
for the digital age.
How
to take back the information you’ve given to all your favorite apps
and websites
Popular
Science:
“Social media networks know a lot about you. In fact, that’s
their primary job. They want to collect information about you and
use that to sell advertisements that you can’t resist. In return
for your data, these companies give you a chance to interact with
other users and share your life no matter how interesting or banal.
…
This
article provides a quick primer on how to see what data sites have
collected about you, as well as how to download and delete it. It’s
handy information to have before the next site shuts down or
accidentally tells a bunch of bad guys your favorite movie and your
cellphone number…”
Might
be useful.
EFF’s
Guide to Digital Rights During the Pandemic: An eBook
EFF:
“As part of EFF’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve
edited and compiled our critical thoughts on digital rights and the
pandemic into an ebook: EFF’s
Guide to Digital Rights and the Pandemic.
To get the ebook, you can make an optional contribution to support
EFF’s work, or you can download it at no cost. We released the
ebook under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
(CC
BY 4.0 ),
which permits sharing among users…”
In
Australia, everything is upside down.
Media
outlets consider High Court appeal over Facebook defamation ruling
Media
outlets including Nine and News Corp Australia are considering a High
Court challenge after NSW's top court upheld a decision holding media
companies legally responsible for "publishing" allegedly
defamatory comments posted by readers on their public Facebook pages.
In
a decision on Monday, the NSW Court of Appeal said news outlets
including the Herald,
owned by Nine, and News Corp's The
Australian
were liable
as publishers of readers' Facebook posts because they "encouraged
and facilitated" comments by setting up public Facebook pages.
The
ruling has implications for other organisations and people with
public social media accounts.
… In
this case, the judges said it was "immaterial" the comments
about Mr Voller were "promptly removed" when the outlets
became aware of them, because they had "participated in the
publication ... from the outset" by inviting comments.
… The
decision meant "the media cannot share any story via Facebook
without fear of being sued" for others' comments.
"It
also creates the extraordinary situation where every public Facebook
page – whether it be held by politicians, businesses or courts –
is now liable for third party comments on those pages," they
said.
Perspective.
(Why are the ‘reports’ only available as slides?)
The
Stitcher Podcasting Report
… The
report provides a detailed analysis of in-app data, network content
and listener demographics as well as an update on changes we’ve
been seeing during the coronavirus pandemic.
Might
be very handy for researchers. Share lists of your resources.
Every
bookmark manager ever made
Bookmarkos
–
“The
following is an attempt to categorize every bookmark manager ever
made into the following categories: visual-based, list-based, start
pages, search-based, tag-based, tab management, read it later, image
bookmarking, privacy focused, sync-based, offline downloadable
solutions, and other…”
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