“I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here’s Why You Should Too – Most Interesting Thing in Tech” By James Temperton, (Wired – UK, 12-1-2019) Google has many great products and services, but they come at significant cost to user’s privacy. If you want to try a search engine that respects your privacy and is not trying to onboard you to other products. |
“Microsoft Wants To Stop AI’s Race to the Bottom'” By Nitasha Tiku (Wired.com, 12-6-2018) |
“Think Twice Before Giving Gifts With a Microphone or Camera” By Lily Hay Newman, (Wired – Security, 11-27-2019) Having an open mic in one’s home has privacy and management implications for those living in the home that are both challenging and perhaps concerning. Thus this makes gifts like smart voice assistants potentially problematic; especially if there are children in the home who are too young to know what’s potentially at stake for them and why this is important. |
| “Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data” As reports surface regarding how the online advertising giant tracks consumers, some try to reclaim their online footsteps. By Greg Bensinger (Washington Post, 7-23-2019) |
Here’s the presentation cited in the Wired.com article above… “Facial recognition: Coming to a street corner near you” (Presentation by Brad Smith, CEO of Microsoft; moderated by Darrell M. West; The Brookings Institution, 12-6-2018) |
“How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy” By Finn Myrstadat (TED Salon: Samsung, Sep 2018) |
| Video and full transcript of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Keynote Address about Data Privacy Responsibility, Principles, & Guidelines at the International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioner’s (IDCPPC) 40th Conference on Ethics, Data Protection and Privacy. By Jonny Evans Computerworld.com, 10-24-2018 |