{"id":3782,"date":"2021-05-07T20:21:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2021\/05\/07\/jedii-tech-news-may-7-2\/"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:21:45","slug":"jedii-tech-news-may-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2021\/05\/07\/jedii-tech-news-may-7-2\/","title":{"rendered":"JEDII Tech News: May 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"links-and-occasional-tweets-from-around-the-web-curated-from-the-nexus-today-an-intermittent-series\"><em>Links, and occasional tweets, from around the web curated from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.thenexus.today\/Tech\">The Nexus Today <\/a>&#8211; an intermittent series<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>Update, November 2021: most of the semi-regular &#8220;tech news roundups&#8221; I did in early 2021 are now hidden. \u00a0This top story on this one, though, relates to the the Washington privacy battle so I decided to leave it up. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If the tweet embedding isn&#8217;t working for you, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdp23\/status\/1390740994849533954\">my thoughts<\/a> on a Sen. Carlyle&#8217;s framing in a now-paywalled Wall Street Journal story \u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/state-data-privacy-bills-stumble-11620379802\"><em>State Data Privacy Bills Stumble<\/em><\/a><em> looking at the state privacy landscape after the back-to-back failure of the Bad Washington Privacy Act and Florida&#8217;s privacy bill. \u00a0The landscape&#8217;s changed a bit since then: Colorado passed <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/colorado-enacts-comprehensive-privacy-2905554\/\"><em>the Colorado Privacy Act (ColoPA)<\/em><\/a>, <em>and in New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/363485\/opt-in-privacy-bill-advances-in-new-york.html\">SB 6701 (strong in many ways including opt-in) made it farther than people had expected<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuvencarlyle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Reuvencarlyle<\/a> continues to blame everybody but himself for his repeated failure.  Who killed the bad bill?: <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was the progressive activists and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGOWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AGOWA<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>in the committee &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>with the religious fervor!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>FYI <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiPlusWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IndiPlusWA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndivisEastside?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IndivisEastside<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndivisibleCoup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IndivisibleCoup<\/a>   <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemCastUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DemCastUSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RacrPgXZsK\">pic.twitter.com\/RacrPgXZsK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Pincus (@jdp23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdp23\/status\/1390740994849533954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/figure>\n<h4 id=\"sheikh-jarrah-facebook-and-twitter-systematically-silencing-protests-deleting-evidence\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessnow.org\/sheikh-jarrah-facebook-and-twitter-systematically-silencing-protests-deleting-evidence\/\">Sheikh Jarrah: Facebook and Twitter systematically silencing protests, deleting evidence<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>on Access Now (accessnow.org)<\/p>\n<p>Facebook and Twitter are systematically silencing users protesting and documenting the evictions of Palestinian families from their homes.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"-i-m-shocked-that-they-need-to-have-a-smartphone-system-for-unemployment-benefits-exposes-digital-divide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2021\/05\/02\/unemployment-benefits-system-leaving-people-behind\/4915248001\/\">\u2018I\u2019m shocked that they need to have a smartphone\u2019: System for unemployment benefits exposes digital divide<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Andrew Kenney on Associated Press (usatoday.com)<\/p>\n<p>Like previous changes to the UI system during the pandemic, the new tech has caused a wave of confusion and complaints about overloaded help lines.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"tech-service-workers-are-essential-they-want-to-be-treated-like-it-\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/people\/tech-service-workers-essential\">Tech service workers are essential. They want to be treated like it.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Megan Rose Dickey on Protocol \u2014 The people, power and politics of tech (protocol.com)<\/p>\n<p>Nora Morales, a janitor at Google, told Protocol tech offices would \u201cfall apart\u201d without service workers.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"foresight-and-decolonial-humanitarian-tech-ethics\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.harvard.edu\/events\/foresight-and-decolonial-humanitarian-tech-ethics\">Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Sabelo Mhlambi on Berkman Klein Center (cyber.harvard.edu)<\/p>\n<p>Anasuya Sengupta, Sabelo Mhlambi, Andrew Zolli, and Aarathi Krishnan discuss if humanitarian actors can play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"perspective-employers-new-tools-to-surveil-and-monitor-workers-are-historically-rooted\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2021\/05\/06\/employers-new-tools-surveil-monitor-workers-are-historically-rooted\/\">Perspective | Employers\u2019 new tools to surveil and monitor workers are historically rooted<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Saima Akhtar on The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)<\/p>\n<p>Technology has just made century-old methods more efficient and widespread.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"fake-net-neutrality-comment-campaign-a-harbinger-of-automated-disinformation-to-come-justin-hendrix\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techpolicy.press\/fake-net-neutrality-comment-campaign-a-harbinger-of-automated-disinformation-to-come\/\">Fake net neutrality comment campaign a harbinger of automated disinformation to come &#8211; Justin Hendrix<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Justin Hendrix on Tech Policy Press (techpolicy.press)<\/p>\n<p>Governments may not be prepared to contend with new mechanisms to automatically generate content and, indeed, online identities.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"-the-entire-u-s-is-built-on-algorithmic-governance-\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slowbuild.substack.com\/p\/the-entire-us-is-built-on-algorithmic\">\u201cThe entire U.S. is built on algorithmic governance\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Nancy Scola on Slow Build (slowbuild.substack.com)<\/p>\n<p>A Q&amp;A with Colgate\u2019s Dan Bouk on the hidden formula binding Congress<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"webaim-screen-reader-user-survey-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/projects\/screenreadersurvey9\/\">WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #9<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>on webaim.org<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"answering-europe-s-call-storing-and-processing-eu-data-in-the-eu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/eupolicy\/2021\/05\/06\/eu-data-boundary\/\">Answering Europe\u2019s Call: Storing and Processing EU Data in the EU<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Brad Smith &#8211; President and Chief Legal Officer on EU Policy Blog (blogs.microsoft.com)<\/p>\n<p>Today we are announcing a new pledge for the European Union. If you are a commercial or public sector customer in the EU, we will go beyond our existing data storage commitments and enable you to process and store all your data in the EU. In other words, we will not need to move your data outside th\u2026<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"analytics-suggest-96-of-users-leave-app-tracking-disabled-in-ios-14-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/05\/07\/most-iphone-users-app-tracking-opt-out\/\">Analytics Suggest 96% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Tim Hardwick on MacRumors (macrumors.com)<\/p>\n<p>An early look at an ongoing analysis of Apple\u2019s App Tracking Transparency suggests that the vast majority of iPhone users are leaving app&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"greek-camps-for-asylum-seekers-to-introduce-partly-automated-surveillance-systems\"><a href=\"https:\/\/algorithmwatch.org\/en\/greek-camps-surveillance\/\">Greek camps for asylum seekers to introduce partly automated surveillance systems<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Corina Petridi (Reporters United) on AlgorithmWatch (algorithmwatch.org)<\/p>\n<p>An EU-funded surveillance system for \u201creception and identification centers\u201d on five Greek islands raises questions about asylum seekers\u2019 privacy and well-being. Despite assurances from European authorities, the Centaur system suggests that mass control, and not shelter, is the priority.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-can-we-resist-surveillance-advertising\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neweconomics.org\/2021\/05\/how-can-we-resist-surveillance-advertising\">How can we resist surveillance advertising?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>By Wednesday 19 May 2021, 18:00-19:30 on New Economics Foundation (neweconomics.org)<\/p>\n<p>Join Heather Burns from the Open Rights Group, Duncan McCann from the New Economics Foundation and other guests TBA to discuss the growth of surveillance advertising<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"psa-twitter-s-new-tip-jar-can-reveal-your-address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/wx55k4\/psa-twitters-new-tip-jar-can-reveal-your-address\">PSA: Twitter\u2019s New Tip Jar Can Reveal Your Address<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>on vice.com<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s new feature to pay users is off to a rough start, as researchers find some issues that may reveal sender or recipient\u2019s personal addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links, and occasional tweets, from around the web curated from The Nexus Today &#8211; an intermittent series Update, November 2021: most of the semi-regular &#8220;tech news roundups&#8221; I did in early 2021 are now hidden. \u00a0This top story on this one, though, relates to the the Washington privacy battle so I decided to leave it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}