Who controls the security? Often the abuser…
https://thenextweb.com/news/domestic-abusers-are-weaponizing-everyday-tech-and-theres-no-quick-fix
Domestic abusers are weaponizing everyday tech — and there’s no quick fix
Perpetrators of domestic abuse are increasingly exploiting digital tools to coerce and control their victims. Where there is abuse in a relationship, technology will also feature in how that abuse is conducted. Police forces now expect as much, when responding to cases of domestic abuse.
Such technological abuse features everyday tools, from smart devices to online platforms and mobile phone apps. And the information on where to find them and how to use them is easily accessible online, often using a simple Google search.
We found that abusers often have physical access to their partners’ devices and use them to monitor, harass and humiliate. Abusers can force their victims to disclose passwords, PIN codes or swipe patterns to get into their devices so they can install sypware – all without sophisticated tech knowledge.
Geolocation software and other surveillance spyware provide new possibilities for abusers to monitor and track victims’ movements. In our study, we found hundreds of tools online that could be used for these purposes.
Soon, every country but the US will have a Privacy law.
https://www.pogowasright.org/oman-data-protection-law-2022/
Oman Data Protection Law 2022
Oman has recently enacted a new personal data protection law, royal decree no 6/2022 (DP Law), to regulate the processing of personal data in the sultanate of Oman
The DP Law was issued on 9 February 2022 and will come into effect on 13 February 2023. The executive regulations (Regulations), which will clarify various elements of the DP Law, are yet to be released by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (Ministry). The Regulations are expected to be issued within this period (i.e. before February 2023).
Read more at Addleshaw Goddard.
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2021 Trends in Privacy Regulatory Enforcement and Litigation
2021 was another busy year for data privacy regulatory enforcement and litigation. With some distance to reflect on last year, we have prepared this post identifying and describing important trends from 2021 that can help provide insight into what to expect in the data privacy landscape in 2022.
Like his real estate deals, “Vast promises, half-vast results.”
Trump’s social truth collapses in disastrous launch, raising doubts about long-term viability
The site had been heralded for months as the crown jewel of Trump’s post-presidential business ambitions, with allies promising it would revolutionize social media and eliminate traditional social networks where Trump is banned.
But early glimpses of Truth Social suggest its offerings are nearly identical to what Twitter and other sites have been offering for years — except tweets are called “Truths” and retweets are called “ReTruths.”
… “The basic thing they needed to be successful in getting someone in the door, they couldn’t achieve,” said privacy researcher Bill Fitzgerald. “The ineptitude of the deployment,” he added, could be a warning of future problems to come: “There is no better sign of a rushed implementation than the fact that you cannot embark person. So I find it hard to understand why anyone would want to believe that these people would keep their information safe.
The site’s problems go beyond its waiting list: its logo — a broken capital “T” with a dot — is identical to the logo of Trailar, a British seller of solar panels for trucks. A company executive told the Washington Post that he was “seeking legal advice to understand the next steps and options available to protect our brand.”
… The site’s terms of service also show it’s designed to benefit from Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which Trump says should be “completely terminated” because it protects tech companies from lawsuits. for what their users post.
Worth trying?
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/22/semi-technologies-search-engine-data/
SeMI Technologies’ search engine opens up new ways to query your data
Companies sit on a lot of unstructured data and often don’t have the capabilities to get much out of it.
Now imagine having a way to store data and actually be able to ask it questions, for example, “When did ABC Company sign its first contract with us?” or “Show me videos that contain blue skies.”
That is what SeMI Technologies is building with Weaviate, a vector search engine
… SeMI’s goal is to commoditize this technology and has an open source business model so that anyone can use it.
Van Luijt gave my colleague, Alex Wilhelm, a look under the hood of the technology last year by creating a semantic search engine that does question-answering on 2021 Techcrunch articles.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/02/what-is-sub-image-search-and-why-would.html
What is Sub-image Search? - And Why Would Your Students Would Use It?
Sub-image search is one of the search strategies that I use a lot when trying to find out what an unfamiliar object is. I've used it to identify some old farm equipment, to find the origins of some flea market pottery, and to identify types of plants whose names I don't know. It's that last example that I share in my course on Search Strategies Students Need to Know.
Simply put, sub-image search is the process of cropping an image to focus on just the most important part and then conducting a reverse image search for that cropped image. Cropping the image removes any extraneous information that isn't helpful in the reverse image process. For example an example of sub-image search, watch this new video that I made. In the video below I provide a demonstration of what happens when I conduct a reverse image search of mushroom surrounded by brown leaves and what happens when I conduct a reverse image search of the cropped version of that same image.
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