Tom’s Guide – A Social Security number (SSN) may be the single most important piece of government-issued identification that U.S. resident can have. It’s definitely the most valuable piece of ID that identity thieves can get their hands on, especially when the number is combined with the rightful bearer’s name and address. Even just by itself,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2021
We know what you did during lockdown
An FT Film written by James Graham: “We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An FT film starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate. An interrogation scene explores how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to… Continue Reading
How COVID Changed Science
Scientific American – “It’s not just the speed and focus with which the community responded, but the singular willingness of scientists all over the world to share new ideas and data immediately and transparently..Rarely in recent memory has the world faced such an immediate and widespread global threat as complex as COVID-19. In its face,… Continue Reading
‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation
The New York Times – “We are in an era of endemic misinformation — and outright disinformation. Plenty of bad actors are helping the trend along. But the real drivers, some experts believe, are social and psychological forces that make people prone to sharing and believing misinformation in the first place. And those forces are… Continue Reading
Biden executive order bets big on zero trust for the future of US cybersecurity
TechRepublic: “This post focuses on the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and its impact on cybersecurity and the zero trust approach. The Biden administration also published a fact sheet: “President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect Federal Government Networks” giving a solid summary of the executive order that… Continue Reading
Survey reveals the extent of surveillance on the remote workforce
“With many companies extending their remote-work policies indefinitely, employers are increasingly exploring new ways to oversee their staff’s productivity. But this challenge is giving rise to solutions that may have disastrous consequences for individual privacy. In a study commissioned by ExpressVPN, in collaboration with Pollfish, 2,000 employers and 2,000 employees who work in a remote… Continue Reading
The Evolving Network of Legal Scholars
Hayashi, Andrew T., The Evolving Network of Legal Scholars (April 25, 2021). Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-25, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3833993 “The law professoriate is a network connected by scholarly interactions of various types, including co-authorship. I study the evolution of the… Continue Reading
Google revives RSS – Sort of
TechCrunch: “Chrome, at least in its experimental Canary version on Android (and only for users in the U.S.), is getting an interesting update in the coming weeks that brings back RSS, the once-popular format for getting updates from all the sites you love in Google Reader and similar services. In Chrome, users will soon see… Continue Reading
Corporate offices need to change in one major way says ServiceNow CEO
ZDNet – “In the age of hybrid work that’s upon us, companies need to dramatically rethink how they approach their office space. As ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott told a group of analysts and reporters during the company’s Knowledge 2021 event, “Nobody wants to play office anymore.” For as long as they’ve existed, corporate office buildings have… Continue Reading
EPA – Climate Change Indicators in the United States
“The Earth’s climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and more extreme climate events – like heavy rainstorms and record high temperatures – are already happening. Many of these observed changes are linked to the rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, caused by human… Continue Reading
When a Raindrop Falls in the US, Where Does It End Up?
Kottke.org: “Using data from the United States Geological Survey, River Runner visualizes the path taken by a raindrop from its landing spot to its eventual endpoint. Just click on any spot in the US and it maps out the path the drop would take, complete with a satellite fly-through of the route…” See also The… Continue Reading
MIT study: Correcting falsehoods on Twitter makes misinformation worse in surprising ways
Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking: Being Corrected by Another User for Posting False Political News Increases Subsequent Sharing of Low Quality, Partisan, and Toxic Content in a Twitter Field Experiment – “A prominent approach to combating online misinformation is to debunk false content. Here we investigate downstream consequences of social corrections on users’ subsequent sharing… Continue Reading
