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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.

Perhaps it’s not cyber war, but I find it interesting that bad things happen after missile tests.

https://www.databreaches.net/n-korean-internet-downed-by-suspected-cyber-attacks-researchers/

N.Korean internet downed by suspected cyber attacks -researchers

Josh Smith reports:

North Korea’s internet appears to have been hit by a second wave of outages in as many weeks, possibly caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, researchers said on Wednesday.

The latest incident took place for about six hours on Wednesday morning local time, and came a day after North Korea conducted its fifth missile test this month.

Junade Ali, a cybersecurity researcher in Britain who monitors a range of different North Korean web and email servers, said that at the height of the apparent attack, all traffic to and from North Korea was taken down.

Read more at Reuters.

Anyway, the questions are useful.

https://fpf.org/blog/five-burning-questions-and-zero-predictions-for-the-u-s-state-privacy-landscape-in-2022/

FIVE BURNING QUESTIONS (AND ZERO PREDICTIONS) FOR THE U.S. STATE PRIVACY LANDSCAPE IN 2022

Entering 2022, the United States remains one of the only major economic powers that lacks a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of consumer data throughout the economy. An ongoing impasse in federal efforts to advance privacy legislation has created a vacuum that state lawmakers, seeking to secure privacy rights and protections for their constituents, are actively working to fill.

Last year we saw scores of comprehensive privacy bills introduced in dozens of states, though when the dust settled, only Virginia and Colorado had joined California in successfully enacting new privacy regimes. Now, at the outset of a new legislative calendar, many state legislatures are positioned to make progress on privacy legislation. While stakeholders are eager to learn which (if any) states will push new laws over the finish line, it remains too early in the lawmaking cycle to make such predictions with confidence. So instead, this post explores five key questions about the state privacy landscape that will determine whether 2022 proves to be a pivotal year for the protection of consumer data in the United States.

Perhaps what we need is a statement from an organization’s Privacy Officer (or Inspector General) detailing the privacy risks? That may force them to actually look at the risks… Maybe even catch vendors who are lying to them.

https://gizmodo.com/how-id-me-irs-face-recognition-works-1848429342

The IRS Needs to Stop Using ID.me's Face Recognition, Privacy Experts Warn

Privacy groups are demanding transparency following news that ID.me—the biometric identity verification system used by the IRS and over 27 states—has failed to be entirely transparent in how its facial recognition technology works.

In a LinkedIn post published on Wednesday, ID.me founder and CEO Blake Hall said the company verifies new enrolling users’ selfies against a database of faces in an effort to minimize identity theft. That runs counter to the more privacy-preserving ways ID.me has pitched its biometric products in the past and has drawn scrutiny from advocates who argue members of the public compelled to use ID.me for basic government tasks have unclear information.

On the company’s website and in white papers shared with Gizmodo, ID.me suggests its services rely on 1:1 face match systems that compare a user’s biometrics to a single document. That’s opposed to so-called 1:many facial recognition systems (the kind deployed by the likes of now-notorious firms like Clearview AI) that compare users to a database of (many) faces.

Perspective.

https://www.bespacific.com/personal-identifying-information-for-1-5-billion-users-was-stolen-in-2021-but-from-where/

Personal identifying information for 1.5 billion users was stolen in 2021, but from where?

TechRepublic: “It was a big year for cybercriminals, who made off with somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion worth of users’ personal identifying information (PII) in 2021, according to a report from threat intelligence company Black Kite. Black Kite looked at 81 third-party breaches that accounted for over 200 public disclosures, and its top findings are unsurprising for anyone who lived through the past year: Ransomware attacks were the most common, healthcare providers were the most popular target, and attackers mostly exploited software vulnerabilities to accomplish their goals. Bob Maley, chief security officer at Black Kite, said that the trends it identified in the report show that threat actors, like many companies, are becoming more agile and capable of launching quick, devastating attacks. “[Increased attacker agility] is not just a change from 2021, but an overall message. Attack methods are becoming more clever, more detailed, with flexibility and dexterity. If agile attack methods are improving, our response must match, if not counter their growth,” Maley said in the report…”

Since we are not going to get a federal privacy law…

https://www.pogowasright.org/consumer-reports-and-epic-release-paper-calling-on-the-federal-trade-commission-to-pursue-a-privacy-rulemaking/

Consumer Reports and EPIC release paper calling on the Federal Trade Commission to pursue a privacy rulemaking

Consumer Reports and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) today released a white paper that provides a detailed roadmap for how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should issue privacy rules under its unfair practices authority.

Justin Brookman, director of technology policy at Consumer Reports, said, “We have been waiting decades for Congress to provide baseline privacy protections over our data. Given the continued erosion of consumer privacy, the FTC should press forward in crafting rules that prohibit by default unnecessary data collection, use, and disclosure.”

Alan Butler, executive director and president of EPIC, said, “The Federal Trade Commission has the authority and the ability to make the internet safer and more private for everyday people. For too long the data practices of companies online have been dedicated by large and powerful corporations, and users have been subject to invasive surveillance and dangerous profiling. It is time for rules that put users first and end these invasive and unfair business practices.”

The paper urges the FTC to establish a Data Minimization Rule to prohibit all secondary data uses with limited exceptions, ensuring that people can safely use apps and online services without having to take additional action. It also lays out two additional options to consider should the FTC decline to prohibit all secondary uses: prohibit specific secondary data uses, such as behavioral advertising or the use of sensitive data; or mandate a right to opt out of secondary data use, including through global opt-out controls and databases.

Additionally, the paper encourages the FTC to adopt data transparency obligations for primary use of data; civil rights protections over discriminatory data processing; nondiscrimination rules, so that users cannot be charged for making privacy choices; data security obligations; access, portability, correction, and deletion rights; and to prohibit the use of dark patterns with respect to data processing.

As outlined in the paper, the FTC has wide authority to issue prescriptive rules in order to forestall business practices that can cause consumer injury. With respect to judicial interpretation, the courts generally give broad deference to expert agencies’ interpretation of their substantive statutes, and these privacy regulations are likely to withstand First Amendment scrutiny.

The two groups submitted the paper to the FTC in support of the privacy rulemaking petition from Accountable Tech, which calls on the FTC to prohibit surveillance advertising under its authority to regulate unfair competition in the marketplace. Last year, CR and EPIC joined over 40 groups in calling on the FTC to begin a privacy rulemaking.

The groups also support Congressional efforts to provide $500 million to the FTC over ten years to fund an office focused on policing privacy abuses and other data violations. New funding will be crucial in enabling the FTC to meet its responsibilities to protect consumer privacy, including pursuing a privacy rulemaking. CR and EPIC, along with dozens of other groups, recently called on Congress to adequately fund the FTC, and urged Congress to support the provision, currently in the Build Back Better Act, that gives the FTC civil penalty authority for first-time violations.

DOWNLOAD: How the FTC Can Mandate Data Minimization Through a Section 5 Unfairness Rulemaking

Source: advocacy.consumerreports.org.

Not all new tech needs new law. (What percentage of the cost of a self-driving car will be insurance?)

https://thenextweb.com/news/whos-to-blame-for-self-driving-vehicle-accidents-uk-law-commission-says-automakers

Who’s to blame for self-driving vehicle accidents? UK says it’s on automakers

… theLaw Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have revised the Automated Vehicles Act of 2018, recommending a new system of legal accountability.

Drivers shouldn’t be held responsible for accidents

As a matter of fact, the person who’s seating on the driver’s seat while a self-driving feature is engaged will no longer be a “driver.” Instead, they’re considered a “user-in-charge.”

The users-in-charge can’t be prosecuted for offences which arise directly from the driving task: exceeding the speed limit, running a red light, causing an accident, etc.

Perspective.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/01/26/ebay-sees-extra-risks-around-artificial-intelligen/

eBay Sees Extra Risks Around Artificial Intelligence Software

An eBay executive who focuses on artificial intelligence recently sat down for an interview during which he described some of the unique challenges facing IT managers who use AI software.

In this video from "The Virtual Opportunities Show," recorded on Jan. 18, Fool.com analyst Asit Sharma and Fool.com contributor Demitri Kalogeropoulos discuss the extra risks for tech companies as they use more AI across their systems.

The basis of a security budget?

https://www.bespacific.com/identity-theft-resource-centers-2021-annual-data-breach-report-sets-new-record-for-number-of-compromises/

Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2021 Annual Data Breach Report Sets New Record for Number of Compromises

“Today, the Identity Theft Resource Center® (ITRC), a nationally recognized nonprofit organization established to support victims of identity crime, will release its 16th Annual Data Breach Report, supported by Sontiq, a TransUnion company, at the Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead Policy Forum hosted by the Better Identity Coalition (BIC), FIDO Alliance and the ITRC. According to the 2021 Annual Data Breach Report, the overall number of data compromises (1,862) is up more than 68 percent compared to 2020. The new record number of data compromises is 23 percent over the previous all-time high (1,506) set in 2017. The number of data events that involved sensitive information (Ex: Social Security numbers ) increased slightly compared to 2020 (83 percent vs. 80 percent). However, it remained well below the previous high of 95 percent set in 2017. The number of victims continues to decrease (down five (5) percent in 2021 compared to the previous year) as identity criminals focus more on specific data types rather than mass data acquisition. However, the number of consumers whose data was compromised multiple times per year remains alarmingly high. Other findings in the 2021 Annual Data Breach Report include:

• Ransomware-related data breaches have doubled in each of the past two years. At the current rate, ransomware attacks will surpass phishing as the number one root cause of data compromises in 2022.

• There were more cyberattack-related data compromises (1,603) in 2021 than all data compromises in 2020 (1,108).

• Compromises increased year-over-year (YoY) in every primary sector but one – Military – where there were no data breaches publicly disclosed. The Manufacturing & Utilities sector saw the largest percentage increase in data compromises at 217 percent over 2020.

• The number of data breach notices that do not reveal the root cause of a compromise (607) has grown by more than 190 percent since 2020.”

Download the ITRC’s 2021 Annual Data Breach Report

In a world where “the cloud” is your most frequent location, having data physically within reach is only required if you have a plan to physically cut access.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3647761/data-residency-laws-pushing-companies-toward-residency-as-a-service.html?upd=1643209433742

Data residency laws pushing companies toward residency as a service

… According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 133 countries have legislation in place to protect data and privacy and another 20 are working on draft legislation. As a result of these and other changes, companies now either set up local servers for the jurisdictions where they do business and residency laws apply, use cloud providers that offer residency support, or work with a newly emerging class of vendors called residency-as-a-service providers.

Some day, when you have nothing else to do...

https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-download-everything-amazon-knows-about-you-its-a-lot/

How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It’s a Lot)

Likehacker – “Alexa has been keeping tabs on you. Here’s how to see what it knows. Here’s a fun thought experiment; picture the amount of personal data you think tech companies keep on you. Now, realize it’s actually way more than that (hmm, maybe this isn’t that fun). Even as privacy and security become more talked about in consumer tech, the companies behind our favorite products are collecting more and more of our data. How much? Well, if you want to know the information, say, Amazon has on you, there is a way to find out. And it’s a lot. To be clear, data collection is far from an Amazon-specific problem; it’s pretty much par for the course when it comes to tech companies. Even Apple, a company vocal about user privacy, has faced criticism in the past for recording Siri interactions and sharing them with third-party contractors. The issue with Amazon, however, is the extent to which they collect and archive your data. Just about everything you do on, with, and around an Amazon product or service is logged and recorded. Sure, you might not be surprised to learn that when you visit Amazon’s website, the company logs your browsing history and shopping data. But it goes far beyond that. Since Amazon owns Whole Foods, it also saves your shopping history there. When you watch video content through its platforms, it records all of that information, too. Things get even creepier with other Amazon products. If you read books on a Kindle, Amazon records your reading activity, including the speed of your page turns (I wonder if Bezos prefers a slow or fast page flip); if you peered into your Amazon data, you might find something similar to what a Reuter’s reporter found: On Aug. 8 2020, someone on that account read The Mitchell Sisters: A Complete Romance Series from 4:52 p.m. through 7:36 p.m., completing 428 pages. (Nice sprint.)..”

You can hide… Well, no you can’t really hide.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-identify-anonymous-data-phone-neural-network

How AI can identify people even in anonymized datasets

How you interact with a crowd may help you stick out from it, at least to artificial intelligence.

When fed information about a target individual’s mobile phone interactions, as well as their contacts’ interactions, AI can correctly pick the target out of more than 40,000 anonymous mobile phone service subscribers more than half the time, researchers report January 25 in Nature Communications. The findings suggest humans socialize in ways that could be used to pick them out of datasets that are supposedly anonymized.

… According to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act, companies that collect information about people’s daily interactions can share or sell this data without users’ consent. The catch is that the data must be anonymized. Some organizations might assume that they can meet this standard by giving users pseudonyms, says Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, a computational privacy researcher at Imperial College London. “Our results are showing that this is not true.”

I need to know more about this. Isn’t it similar to requiring insurance on your car? On the other hand, what size policy is realistic? (covers losses or damages resulting from “any negligent or accidental use of the firearm.”)

https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-jose-becomes-1st-city-in-nation-to-approve-liability-insurance-fee-for-gun-owners

San Jose becomes 1st city in nation to approve liability insurance, fee for gun owners

[The ordinance:

https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10408009&GUID=959CCD88-3C60-453C-820E-8212991AA097

Amateurs can contribute(?) to cyber war. Perhaps revealing security weaknesses that the military would rather keep in reserve, perhaps drawing retaliation?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/hactivists-say-they-hacked-belarus-rail-system-to-stop-russian-military-buildup/

Hactivists say they hacked Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup

Hacktivists in Belarus said on Monday they had infected the network of the country’s state-run railroad system with ransomware and would provide the decryption key only if Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko stopped aiding Russian troops ahead of a possible invasion of Ukraine.

Less obvious but still warlike?

https://thehackernews.com/2022/01/hackers-exploited-mshtml-flaw-to-spy-on.html

Hackers Exploited MSHTML Flaw to Spy on Government and Defense Targets

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday took the wraps off a multi-stage espionage campaign targeting high-ranking government officials overseeing national security policy and individuals in the defense industry in Western Asia.

… Trellix attributed the attacks with moderate confidence to the Russia-based APT28 group, the threat actor behind the compromise of SolarWinds in 2020, based on similarities in the source code as well as in the attack indicators and geopolitical objectives.

Empire building? What if everyone tried to write the rules?

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3648063/sec-eyes-more-expansive-cybersecurity-requirements.html#tk.rss_all

SEC eyes more expansive cybersecurity requirements

Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has laid out an ambitious cybersecurity plan for his agency that could give it a far more expansive regulatory footprint than it currently has. Speaking to Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Annual Securities Regulation Institute, Gensler said that “the financial sector remains a very real target of cyberattacks” and is becoming “increasingly embedded within society’s critical infrastructure.”

… In his speech, Gensler proposed a series of changes involving new, “refreshed,” or expanded SEC cybersecurity authorities.

Other ways to irritate us.

https://thenextweb.com/news/smart-devices-read-mood-mind-shouldnt-without-consent-syndication

Smart devices can now read your mood and mind — they shouldn’t without consent

… it also got me thinking about other biometric recognition devices which, for better or worse, are already integrated into our everyday lives.

There are obvious examples: fingerprint scanners that unlock doors and facial recognition that allows payment through a phone. But there are other devices that do more than read an image — they can literally read people’s minds.

Trying to keep up...

https://www.insideprivacy.com/united-states/state-legislatures/state-legislative-trends-to-watch-in-2022/

State Legislative Trends to Watch in 2022

… While some states will have these bills under consideration well into the fall, the vast majority of state legislatures will adjourn by early June and thirteen will adjourn before the start of April.

During this early year sprint, there are five general trends that observers will want to keep an eye on in state legislatures.

(Related)

https://fpf.org/blog/addressing-the-intersection-of-civil-rights-and-privacy-federal-legislative-efforts/

ADDRESSING THE INTERSECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND PRIVACY: FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS

… In the coming weeks and months, FPF will be publishing a blog series to provide an informative overview of government efforts to regulate discriminatory data practices through proposed legislation and executive agency enforcement. This blog is the first in the series and will cover federal legislative efforts.

And sometimes you just need an alibi…

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-android-location-spoofing-apps/

The 7 Best Free Android Apps to Fake Your GPS Location

Are you looking for a way to catch those location-specific Pokémon in Go? Want some rare Harry Potter: Wizards Unite "foundables" only available in another country? Or do you just want to fool your friends into thinking you're on the other side of the planet? Well, you need a GPS spoofer, then!

Here are the best GPS spoofing apps on Android. These are all free and don't require you to root/jailbreak your smartphone or tablet. Instead, you can just tinker with a Developer option on your device.

It used to be that super computers were used for advanced physics or predicting the weather.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/24/22898651/meta-artificial-intelligence-ai-supercomputer-rsc-2022

Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022

Designed to train the next generation of machine learning systems

… The company says its new AI Research SuperCluster, or RSC, is already among the fastest machines of its type and, when complete in mid-2022, will be the world’s fastest.

… The news demonstrates the absolute centrality of AI research to companies like Meta. Rivals like Microsoft and Nvidia have already announced their own “AI supercomputers,” which are slightly different from what we think of as regular supercomputers. RSC will be used to train a range of systems across Meta’s businesses: from content moderation algorithms used to detect hate speech on Facebook and Instagram to augmented reality features that will one day be available in the company’s future AR hardware. And, yes, Meta says RSC will be used to design experiences for the metaverse — the company’s insistent branding for an interconnected series of virtual spaces, from offices to online arenas.

Perspective.

https://www.ft.com/content/2d446160-08cb-489f-90c8-853b3d88780d

Why gaming is the new Big Tech battleground

… According to some, the deal, announced on Tuesday, will greatly add to forces that have already been reshaping the sector in recent years including the streaming of games, leading to the creation of ever-larger gaming empires.

The huge size of today’s gaming audience, which already dwarfs other forms of mass-market entertainment, is playing to the strengths of companies that can build and manage giant online businesses to spread their costs, according to Bing Gordon, a longtime video game executive and venture capitalist.

… Microsoft’s move has still highlighted the rising stakes in a business whose $180bn of annual revenue in 2021 is already double that of the movie industry.

I haven’t seen articles like this for a while. Perhaps war driving is making a comeback?

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-a-wifi-antenna-out-of-a-pringles-can-nb/

How To Make a Wi-Fi Antenna Out Of a Pringles Can

I like it!

https://www.bespacific.com/bookfeed-io-an-rss-feed-listing-all-newly-released-books-from-your-favorite-authors/

Bookfeed.io – An RSS feed listing all newly released books from your favorite authors

Likas Mathis – “Bookfeed.io is a simple tool that allows you to specify a list of authors, and generates an RSS feed with each author’s most recently released book. I made this because I don’t want a recommendation algorithm to tell me what to read, I just want to know when my favorite authors release new books.”

(Related) I use Feedly myself.

https://www.bespacific.com/what-is-rss-and-how-to-use-it-effectively/

What is RSS and How to Use it Effectively

A reminder to continue to reference this article by Pete Weiss, What is RSS and How to Use it Effectively. RSS has changed over the years, but remains a significant application for researchers.