Links May 5-11 2019
Wednesday May 8, 2019
"ROVANIEMI, Finland — Under pressure from the United States, the Arctic Council issued a short joint statement Tuesday that excluded any mention of climate change." sfchronicle.com
Is scraping ethical? Nonetheless, a site called "Journalists Toolbox" provides many scripts for scraping tweets of accounts not belonging to you, which at one time, was a violation of Twitter's terms of service. journaliststoolbox.org
"Google is set to launch new tools to limit the use of tracking cookies, a move that could strengthen the search giant’s advertising dominance and deal a blow to other digital-marketing companies, according to people familiar with the matter." wsj.com
Privacy vs. security is a tension to be kept in mind when reading about this NH judge ordering voice recordings made during the time of a murder be turned over to the court. cbs.com
California also introduced a dissemination bill "The bill would prohibit any actual recordings of spoken word collected through the operation of a voice recognition feature for the purpose of improving the voice recognition feature, by the manufacturer of a connected television or other device with a voice recognition feature, or by a contracting third party, from being used for any advertising purpose, or being shared with or sold to a third party, unless the consumer provides written consent." leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
Illinois introduced a bill to make illegal to disseminate information collected through device speakers "Provides that a private entity that collects, stores, or transmits any information collected through a digital device's microphone concerning an Illinois resident shall implement and maintain reasonable security measures to protect such information from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, use, modification, and disclosure." ilga.gov
"It is, essentially, a massive hit about how Billboard’s rankings are stupid." theoutline.com
Tuesday May 7, 2019
A milestone was reached in popular culture last week and made official with this front page story that begins "A stern attitude toward the tech industry has emerged on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors — the most progressive in recent history — as some members look to tax an industry for problems they say it helped cause." sfcrhonicle.com
This book says music listeners are more connected to the musicians but live performances hurts that connection because "for audiences, meeting their heroes can kill the mystique." nyupress.com
It's an opinion piece, but shouldn't @washingtonpost still have standards about not publishing false info even in its opeds. And can someone send @asymmetricinfo a copy of @jkosseff's book to learn the history of CDA 230 so she stops misrepresenting it? (fixed tweet). https://t.co/CLIVBLK5Ey
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) May 7, 2019
"Despite the increases in denial rates among outsourcers, Howard University professor Ron Hira, who studies the H-1B and immigration issues, said the data suggests the government hasn’t completely eliminated their dominance of the H-1B program. Outsourcing companies remain among the top H-1B recipients." mercurynews.com
H1b denials skyrocket under Trump. Outsourcing firms hit the hardest: mercurynews.com
"Center for Immigration Studies’ Matthew Sussis published a series of statements from Americans who have been replaced by foreign H-1B visa workers that were made during a conference call with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Sara Blackwell’s Protect U.S. Workers." breitbart.com
As governments explore taxing big companies for selling our data, they're facing policy experts who say they'd be "'validating the extractive and abusive practice by tech companies,' says New York Assemblyman Ron Kim." governing.com
Analog radio system needed in Florida, is facing construction delays. sun-sentinel.com
By process of elimination, Florida bureaucrats are guessing which county's election system was invaded by a foreign government, "The Mueller report said that the GRU, the Russian Military intelligence agency, attempted to gain access to election systems by sending phishing emails to accounts used by county officials in Florida. An attachment 'permitted the GRU to access the infected computer.'" sun-sentinel.com
"The four major US wireless carriers are facing proposed class-action lawsuits accusing them of violating federal law by selling their customers' real-time location data to third parties." arstechnica.com
"PACER searches federal court records, and it is a very good searcher, considering courts are not the most… digital-first entities." toolsforreporters.com
Monday May 6, 2019
Pompeo says melting sea ice in the arctic opens opportunities for mineral, gas, oil extraction, and passageways for trade. cnn.com
"At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists—prokaryotes versus eukaryotes—was upended by the discovery of an entirely new group of organisms: archaea." press.uchicago.edu
Sunday May 5, 2019
"I'm a Type—A personality, so when I say I'm going to do something, I go out of my way to make sure it happens. My writing company's policy is if we miss a deadline, the content is free." inkwelleditorial.com
"CAASPP, has been conducted online. To prepare for these tests, schools and teachers — quite naturally — put more homework and classwork online. And that is how this parent lost the screen-time battle." sfchronicle.com
We’re wasting time and exhausting our brain’s limited resources, affecting productivity and output quality, writes Brian Solis : blogs.lse.ac.uk
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