Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Thursday, August 01, 2024

At the Mercy of Internet Services

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Here's a very scary LOCUS column by Cory Doctorow about Google users arbitrarily losing their e-mail accounts and access to all their fi...
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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Decoding Brain Waves

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Can a computer program read thoughts? An experimental project uses AI as a "brain decoder," in combination with brain scans, to ...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

When Do Conspiracy Theorists Make Sense?

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Cory Doctorow's column in the May issue of LOCUS discusses what we'd probably think of as paranoid conspiracy theorists, vehemently ...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

How the Mouse Moves/ How the Toilet Rolls

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I like sex, science, copyright law and order, privacy, and words. Not necessarily in that order.  I read a lot of legal blogs each week, and...
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Saturday, November 27, 2021

To Review Or Not To Review....

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Apologies for the bathos to Hamlet and his existential question.   I once wrote a review for my dentist. Then, I felt that I had to ask him ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Real People as Characters

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I've just finished reading the ten Catherine Le Vendeur novels by Sharan Newman, mysteries set in twelfth-century Europe (mostly in Fran...
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Saturday, September 11, 2021

Bad Calls

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Today's topic is "Bad Calls" around the World: by an Australian Troll, by Apple in going after an allegedly notorious internat...
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Sunday, May 24, 2020

In Dispraise of Haste

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Which "haste-related" cautionary proverb comes first to your mind?  I thought of "Marry in haste, repent at leisure," wh...
Saturday, March 07, 2020

Willy Nilly and the Erosion of Privacy

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Does personal privacy matter? Less so, it seems, in the age where a priority is put on the convenience of others and the profitability of ...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Heinous Hacks

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There are certain times of day, and certain light conditions under which persons of a certain age with either glaucoma or cataracts or epile...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Like This

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My heading needs punctuation, but whether it should be an exclamation mark, a question mark, a full stop, or ellipses... I leave it to the e...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Other People's Medical Misfortunes

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Just because Amazon has made a movie --about the infamous tossing (out of a car window) of  a severed male member-- does not mean that any w...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Your Privacy

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Your privacy is my problem. It is your problem. Disclaimer: the authors who share this blog do not knowingly or intentionally exploit othe...
Sunday, December 09, 2018

Trojan Horses For Kids, Rampant Scraping

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Authors are warned not to "scrape" social media sites for the email addresses of potential readers. Since the GDPR , (Europe's...
Sunday, September 09, 2018

Is The DOJ Watching Facebook Advertisements?

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"Targeted" advertising is probably efficient and convenient.  If you don't think that it is worth paying for puce eyeballs to ...
Sunday, September 02, 2018

Privacy Lost

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John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost". This is about "Privacy Lost". Almost nothing is private these days. Apparently, the...