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via Marc Weber Tobias, writing at Forbes, comes this superlative piece detailing consent inconsistency and other fundamental legal problems with Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Siri personal assistant. Todays Must… Continue reading Marc Tobias On Apple Inc.’s Siri Promises
With legal recreational cannabis use spreading across North America there is a constant debate over what the minimum age for consumption should be. A new study from a team of Canadian researchers is suggesting 19 is the optimal age to set for recreatio… Continue reading Optimal minimum legal age for recreational cannabis is 19, study says
On March 24, President Trump signed two bills designed to enhance the availability and security of 5G and other broadband services. The first bill, the “Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act” or the “Broadband DATA Act” requ… Continue reading President Signs Two Broadband Bills
A new report, from researchers at McMaster University and Ryerson University, has surveyed over 200 participants from a prematurely cancelled basic income experiment that took place in Southern Ontario between 2017 and 2019. The report suggests partici… Continue reading Canada’s cancelled basic income trial produces positive results
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via Natasha Lomas – writing at TechCrunch, comes this story of the Australian Information Commissioner filing proceedings targeting Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) over the Cambridge Analytica data breach outrage. My take: Good … Continue reading Australian Information Commissioner Holds Facebook’s Feet To The Barbie…
Bluntly stated, music is in the end just applied physics. Harmony follows — depending on the genre — a more or less fixed set of rules, and there are a limited amount of variation possible within the space of music itself. So there are technically only so many melodies possible, …read more
Continue reading Brute-Forced Copyrighting: Liberating All The Melodies
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Cybersecurity Unit has released guidelines for organizations that want to gather cyber threat intelligence from dark web forums/markets but, at the same time, want to stay on the right side of the (U.S. federal criminal… Continue reading How to gather cyber threat intelligence from dark markets without breaking US law
Access Now, a non-profit digital rights advocacy group, has released its annual report on global internet shutdowns. The report reveals governments around world increasingly shutting down the internet, often to stifle dissent, and frequently doing so d… Continue reading How governments shut the internet down to suppress dissent
In episode 103: The US Department of Homeland Security warns of Iranian cyber-attacks, Ring gets hit with a $5 million dollar class action lawsuit, and some quick tips on how to prevent calendar SPAM. ** Show notes and links mentioned on the show ** Ir… Continue reading Iranian Cyber-Attacks, Ring Class-Action Lawsuit, Preventing Calendar SPAM
California state lawmakers should be lauded for SB 327, their well-intentioned legislative attempt at tackling one of the most pressing issues in the tech sector: IoT security. But as the law went into effect at the start of the year, they will also (u… Continue reading California’s IoT cybersecurity bill: What it gets right and wrong