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https://www.pogowasright.org/top-10-for-2022-happy-data-privacy-day/

Top 10 for 2022 – Happy Data Privacy Day!

Joseph J. Lazzarotti & Jason C. Gavejian of JacksonLewis posted this yesterday:

In honor of Data Privacy Day, we provide the following “Top 10 for 2022.” While the list is by no means exhaustive, it does provide some hot topics for organizations to consider in 2022.

1. State Consumer Privacy Law Developments

On January 1, 2020, the CCPA ushered into the U.S. a range of new rights for consumers, including:

• The right to request deletion of personal information;

• The right to request that a business disclose the categories of personal information collection and the categories of third parties to which the information was sold or disclosed; and

• The right to opt-out of sale of personal information; and

• The California consumer’s right to bring a private right of action against a business that experiences a data breach affecting their personal information as a result of the business’s failure to implement “reasonable safeguards.”

Read more at Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report.

The apps are useful to attract victims?

https://www.makeuseof.com/which-ride-hailing-apps-collect-most-data/

Which Ride-Hailing Apps Collect the Most Data on You?

… Surfshark's recent report found that ride-hailing app GrabTaxi collects the most data, collecting data on 27 of the 32 possible data points. Furthermore, GrabTaxi grabs almost ten times more data than the lowest-ranked app, Rapido.

The study took 30 apps from Apple's App Store and took a good look at their data collection practices. It then took the 32 different types of data measured by the App Store and created a handy data index, ranking each available ride-hailing app according to how much personal data they hoover up.

… With 80 points, Uber ranks third in Surfshark's ride-hailing data collection rankings. However, competitor Lyft is further down the list, amassing 47 points. While that may seem like a big difference, it's worth considering that both companies collect similar data on their users.

Interesting argument. Can it be used anywhere organizations fail?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/28/22906513/waymo-lawsuit-california-dmv-crash-data-foia

Waymo sues California DMV to keep driverless crash data under wraps

Waymo filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles to keep driverless car crash data from being made public. The autonomous vehicle operator, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, claims that such data should be considered a trade secret. The news of the lawsuit was first reported by Business Insider and later by the Los Angles Times.

Where else should the states act to correct the feds failures?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-upholds-california-net-neutrality-law-2022-01-28/

U.S. appeals court will not block California net neutrality law

A U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday upheld California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse federal internet protections could not bar state action.

Perspective.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/artificial-intelligence-children-technology/

Our children are growing up with AI. Here's what you need to know

A 2019 study conducted by DataChildFutures found that 46% of participating Italian households had AI-powered speakers, while 40% of toys were connected to the internet. More recent research suggests that by 2023 more than 275 million intelligent voice assistants, such as Amazon Echo or Google Home, will be installed in homes worldwide.

As younger generations grow up interacting with AI-enabled devices, more consideration should be given to the impact of this technology on children, their rights and wellbeing.

Perspective. A question for the ages?

https://www.bespacific.com/the-modern-workplace-will-remote-tech-workers-tolerate-being-monitored/

The modern workplace: Will remote tech workers tolerate being monitored?

ZDNet – “The same technologies that enable people to work from home can be used to watch them work. A survey finds widespread use of monitoring software and not everyone is told it is there… For work at home advocates the future looks rosy. With the current jobs boom it looks certain that they’ll get what they want – either at their current employer — or somewhere else. But will workers agree to allow their employer to monitor their home office activities? Is it something that can be refused or not? How is the home different from the office where people can be seen to be working at their desks, engaged in meetings, and logging into their IT systems? Do remote workers have a right to refuse to be monitored? Digital.com released a survey late last year that found widespread use of remote worker monitoring software especially in IT (77%) and advertising (83%). One in seven workers hadn’t been told about it. Working from home might not be such a wonderful thing when you consider that people worked harder – a 10% boost in productivity was reported in the survey after the software was installed…”

I suspect this happens a lot. I should talk about it with my students.

https://www.ft.com/content/7f12906e-fc6a-403b-aa41-aca03724b76f

A remote village, a world-changing invention and the epic legal fight that followed

… Hognaland’s idea was to use robots to operate warehouses stacked as tightly as possible. It turned out to be so powerful that AutoStore went public last October with a market capitalisation of $12bn.

… The retail industry increasingly relies on automated warehouses, and the approach that Hognaland pioneered and that Ocado built on, is even more advanced than Amazon’s.

… It would be an inspiring story of inventive genius in logistics, except for one problem: Hognaland’s idea turned out to be so valuable that Ocado adapted it without permission.

As a SciFi fan, I’ll be using this line a lot!

https://thenextweb.com/news/4-biggest-science-breakthroughs-that-gen-z-could-live-see

The 4 biggest science breakthroughs that Gen Z could live to see

The only difference between science fiction and science is patience. Yesterday’s mainframes are today’s smartphones and today’s neural networks will be tomorrow’s androids. But long before any technology becomes reality, someone has to dream it into existence.

… Let’s set our time machines to “January 28, 2100” to take an imaginary gander at the four most amazing science and technology breakthroughs the sort-of-far future has to offer.