Kyle Rankin: "In this post I’ll tell my story of how tightly Google was integrated in my life, the lengths I had to go to remove them, and what took so long."

Kyle Rankin: "Nesse post eu contarei a história de como o Google estava profundamente integrado à minha vida, os esforços que tive que fazer para removê-lo e porque demorei tanto para isso".

The global battle for control of the digital economy is typically portrayed as one fought by only two titans: US and China, but that does not mean that the EU has been standing still. As this briefing documents, the EU has been making strong efforts to catch up using trade negotiations and trade rules to assert its own interests. In the process, the EU is trying to climb up on the backs of the developing countries, undermining the chance for all to equitably share in the benefits of technological development.

A batalha global pelo controle da economia digital é normalmente retratada como uma disputa entre apenas dois titãs: EUA e China, mas isso não significa que a UE esteja parada. Como esse relatório aponta, a UE tem feito grandes esforços para alcançá-los utilizando negociações e regras comerciais para garantir seus próprios interesses. No processo, a UE vem "tentando subir nas costas" dos países em desenvolvimento, minando a chance de todos dividirem os benefícios do desenvolvimento tecnológico de maneira equitativa.

O Age Appropriate Design Code – agora chamado de "Código das Crianças" – causou grandes mudanças globais. Não que as plataformas de tecnologia queiram admitir isso.

The Age Appropriate Design Code – now the Children’s Code – has caused huge global changes. Not that tech platforms want to admit it.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed work life profoundly and concerns regarding the mental well-being of employees’ have arisen. Organizations have made rapid digital advancements and have started to use new collaborative tools such as social media platforms overnight. Our study aimed to investigate how professional social media communication has affected work engagement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of perceived social support, task resources, and psychological distress as predictors and moderators of work engagement.

A pandemia de COVID-19 alterou profundamente nossa vida laboral e muitas preocupações surgiram acerca do bem-estar mental de funcionários. As empresas fizeram rápidos avanços digitais e começaram a utilizar novas ferramentas colaborativas, como as redes sociais, da noite para o dia. Nossa pequisa investiga como o uso profissional de comunicações através de redes sociais afetou o engajamento no trabalho antes e durante a pandemia de COVID-19. Também buscou-se investigar o papel do apoio social, das task resources, e da aflição psicológica como preditores e moderadores do engajamento no trabalho.

Os passaportes de vacina já estão sendo considerados por alguns governos e empresas como uma forma de se permitir o retorno a algo parecido com a "vida normal". Os Comissários de Privacidade do Canadá decidiram fazer uma declaração nesse momento para garantir que a privacidade seja considerada como parte de toda e qualquer discussão sobre o desenvolvimento de passaportes de vacina.

Vaccine passports are being considered by some governments and businesses as a means of allowing a return to something more closely resembling normal life. Canada’s Privacy Commissioners have decided to make a statement at this time in an effort to ensure that privacy is considered at the earliest opportunity as part of any discussions about vaccine passport development.

Uma ação judicial federal foi aberta contra o Estado da Pensilvânia e uma empresa contratada por seu Departamento de Saúde devido a um vazamento de dados que expôs as informações pessoais de saúde (personal health information) de milhares de cidadãos.

A federal lawsuit has been filed against Pennsylvania and a vendor contracted by the state's Department of Health (DOH) over a data breach that exposed the personal health information (PHI) of thousands of Pennsylvanians.

Discussões entre Estados-membros da UE sobre como abordar os planos para certificados digitais de vacinação estão sendo realizadas em um novo "grupo de trabalho ad-hoc", um formato que não é propenso a promover a transparência - particularmente quando se considera que o grupo já afirmou que não irá manter "atas propriamente ditas"

Discussions amongst EU member states on how to approach plans for digital vaccination certificates are taking place in a new "ad-hoc working group", a format that is not likely to foster transparency - particularly given that the group has said it will not be keeping "minutes as such".

A privacidade dos registros eletrônicos de saúde (EHRs) está enfrentando um grande obstáculo com a terceirização de dados privados de saúde na nuvem, pois existe o perigo de vazamento de informações de saúde para partes não autorizadas. Na verdade, os EHRs são armazenados em bancos de dados centralizados, o que aumenta a área de cobertura do risco à segurança e exige confiança em uma única autoridade que não pode proteger os dados de ataques internos com eficácia. Esta pesquisa se concentra em garantir a privacidade do paciente e a segurança dos dados, enquanto compartilha os dados confidenciais entre organizações iguais ou diferentes, bem como provedores de saúde em um ambiente distribuído.

The privacy of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is facing a major hurdle with outsourcing private health data in the cloud as there exists danger of leaking health information to unauthorized parties. In fact, EHRs are stored on centralized databases that increases the security risk footprint and requires trust in a single authority which cannot effectively protect data from internal attacks. This research focuses on ensuring the patient privacy and data security while sharing the sensitive data across same or different organisations as well as healthcare providers in a distributed environment.

Neste artigo, fornecemos um algoritmo explícito e uma implementação de prova de conceito para transformar diagramas de fluxo de dados em diagramas de fluxo de dados voltados para a privacidade. Nossa ferramenta auxilia os engenheiros de software na tarefa crítica, mas sujeita a erros, de inserir sistematicamente verificações de privacidade durante o projeto (elas são adicionadas automaticamente por nossa ferramenta) enquanto ainda permite que inspecionem e editem, se necessário.

In this paper, weprovide an explicit algorithm and a proof-of-concept implementation to transform Data Flow Diagrams into Privacy-Aware DataFlow Diagrams. Our tool assists software engineers in the critical but error-prone task of systematically inserting privacy checksduring design (they are automatically added by our tool) while still allowing them to inspect and edit if necessary.

In this paper, weprovide an explicit algorithm and a proof-of-concept implementation to transform Data Flow Diagrams into Privacy-Aware DataFlow Diagrams. Our tool assists software engineers in the critical but error-prone task of systematically inserting privacy checksduring design (they are automatically added by our tool) while still allowing them to inspect and edit if necessary.

Abstract: In recent years, critical scholarship has drawn attention to increasing power differentials between corporations that use data and people whose data is used. A growing number of scholars see digital data and information commons as a way to counteract this asymmetry. In this paper I raise two concerns with this argument.

Resumo: nos últimos anos, estudos críticos têm chamado a atenção para o aumento dos diferenciais de poder entre as empresas que usam dados e as pessoas cujos dados são usados. Um número crescente de estudiosos vê os dados digitais e os bens comuns de informação como uma forma de neutralizar essa assimetria. Neste artigo, levanto duas preocupações com esse argumento.

De alterar as configurações de privacidade a colocar limites nessas notificações irritantes, veja como assumir o controle do Slack.

From changing privacy settings to putting limits on those infuriating notifications, here’s how to take control of Slack.

There is a gap between people’s online sharing of personal data and their concerns about privacy. Till now, this gap is addressed by attempting to match individual privacy preferences with service providers’ options for data handling. This approach has ignored the role different contexts play in data sharing. This paper aims at giving privacy engineering a new direction putting context centre stage and exploiting the affordances of machine learning in handling contexts and negotiating data sharing policies.

Há uma lacuna entre o compartilhamento online de dados pessoais das pessoas e suas preocupações com a privacidade. Até agora, essa lacuna é abordada ao tentar combinar as preferências de privacidade individuais com as opções dos provedores de serviço para tratamento de dados. Essa abordagem ignorou o papel que diferentes contextos desempenham no compartilhamento de dados. Este artigo tem como objetivo dar à engenharia de privacidade uma nova direção, colocando o contexto no centro do palco e explorando as possibilidades do aprendizado de máquina para lidar com contextos e negociar políticas de compartilhamento de dados.

武漢大学の皆さん、たいへんお疲れ様でした。中国のエンジニアが個人データ関連のプラットフォームに取り組んでいるのを見るのは素晴らしいことです。ただ、人間中心にするには、さらに一歩踏み出す必要があります。個人データは医者ではなく、患者自身により完全にコントロールされるべきです。

Bom trabalho Universidade de Wuhan. É ótimo ver engenheiros chineses trabalhando em plataformas relacionadas a dados pessoais. No entanto, precisava de um passo extra para se tornar mais centrado no ser humano. O paciente deve ter controle total, não o médico.

Um verdadeiro sistema operacional de código aberto para celular que não possui posições políticas?

A real open-source OS for mobile phone that has no political stances?

Good job Wuhan University. It is great to see Chinese engineers working on personal data related platform. However, needed one extra step to become more human-centric. The patient should have the full control not the doctor.

Purismが開発するLibrem 5 phoneは、PureOSというGNU/Linux OSで稼働します。展開中の「Fund Your Appキャンペーン」では、より使いやすいツールにするため利用者に対して、搭載して欲しいアプリを公募しています。投票には寄付金を添えます。PureOSは民主的な、携帯電話向けの真のオープンソースOSとなるでしょうか？

This paper describes results of a Covid-19 contact tracing app measurement study carried out on a standard design of European commuter tram. The measurements indicate that in the tram there is little correlation between Bluetooth received signal strength and distance between handsets. The paper applies the detection rules used by the Italian, Swiss and German apps to measurement data and also characterised the impact on performance of changes in the parameters used in these detection rules.

Este artigo descreve os resultados de um estudo de medição de aplicativo de rastreamento de contato Covid-19 realizado em um projeto padrão de bonde suburbano europeu. As medições indicam que no bonde há pouca correlação entre a intensidade do sinal recebido pelo Bluetooth e a distância entre os aparelhos. O artigo aplica as regras de detecção usadas pelos aplicativos italiano, suíço e alemão aos dados de medição e também caracterizou o impacto no desempenho das mudanças nos parâmetros usados ​​nessas regras de detecção.

本稿では、ヨーロッパの通勤電車の標準的なデザインで実施されたCovid-19接触追跡アプリの測定研究の結果について説明する。測定の結果、路面電車ではBluetoothの受信信号強度と携帯電話間の距離にはほとんど相関がないことがわかりました。この論文では、イタリア、スイス、ドイツのアプリで使用されている検出ルールを測定データに適用し、また、これらの検出ルールで使用されているパラメータを変更した場合のパフォーマンスへの影響を特徴付けました。

John Wunderlich shared the huge collections of projects and publications in the data stewardship field.

"A data steward is a role within an organization responsible for utilizing an organization's data governance processes to ensure fitness of data elements - both the content and metadata" - Definition from Wikipedia

John Wunderlich氏は、データスチュワードシップ分野の膨大なプロジェクトや出版物のコレクションを共有しました。

データスチュワードとは、データ要素（コンテンツとメタデータの両方）の適合性を確保するために、組織のデータガバナンスプロセスを活用する責任を負う組織内の役割である。Wikipedia

John Wunderlich compartilhou as enormes coleções de projetos e publicações na área de gerenciamento de dados.

"Um administrador de dados é uma função dentro de uma organização responsável por utilizar os processos de governança de dados de uma organização para garantir a adequação dos elementos de dados - tanto o conteúdo quanto os metadados" - Definição da Wikipedia.

A mídia social tornou possível manipular as massas por meio de desinformação e notícias falsas em uma escala sem precedentes. Isso é particularmente alarmante do ponto de vista da segurança, pois os humanos provaram ser um dos elos mais fracos na proteção de infraestruturas críticas em geral e da rede elétrica em particular.

Social media has made it possible to manipulate the masses via disinformation and fake news at an unprecedented scale. This is particularly alarming from a security perspective, as humans have proven to be one of the weakest links when protecting critical infrastructure in general, and the power grid in particular.

Speaking at a prestigious crypto conference this month, Seny Kamara called on the field to recognize its blind spots—and fix them.
The talk, dubbed Crypto for the People (YouTube Video, 1:04 hours) and given on August 19, examined the question of who really benefits from encryption technologies and advances in cryptographic research.

今月、著名な暗号会議で講演したSeny Kamaraさんは、業界にある死角を認識して修正するよう呼びかけました。
8月19日に行われたこの講演では、Crypto for the People（YouTubeビデオ、1時間4分）と呼ばれ、暗号化技術と暗号化研究の進歩から誰が本当に恩恵を受けるのかという問題について検討しました。

Falando em uma conferência de prestígio sobre criptografia neste mês, Seny Kamara convocou o campo para reconhecer seus pontos cegos - e corrigi-los. A palestra, apelidada de Crypto for the People (YouTube Video, 1:04 horas) e proferida em 19 de agosto, examinou a questão de quem realmente se beneficia com as tecnologias de criptografia e avanços na pesquisa criptográfica.

A quantitative study of differences in COVID-19–related internet uses and outcomes among the general population.

COVID-19に関連するインターネットの使用と一般住民間の結果の違いに関する定量的研究論文。

Um estudo quantitativo das diferenças nos resultados e usos da Internet relacionados ao COVID-19 entre a população em geral.

Las Vegas casinos, open for months now, are a likely hotbed for the spread of COVID-19. For many reasons, contact tracing has proved next to impossible as tourists return to homes across the U.S.

Os cassinos de Las Vegas, abertos há meses, são um provável foco para a disseminação do COVID-19. Por muitos motivos, o rastreamento de contatos provou-se quase impossível, pois os turistas voltam para suas casas nos EUA.

ラスベガス市のカジノは再開してから数か月間経過しており、COVID-19の普及の温床となる可能性があります。多くの理由で、観光客が米国中の家に戻ると、連絡先の追跡はほぼ不可能であることが判明しました。

O design impulsionado pela tecnologia geralmente falha. Por isso, trouxemos exemplo justificar porque o design centrado nas pessoas é inevitável.

テクノロジー主導の設計は通常失敗します。人間中心の設計が避けられない理由を支持する例が示されています。

Technology driven design usually fails. Examples are given to support why people-centered design is inevitable.

Some Banking Websites Have Third Party Trackers on Login Pages. Just like the danger of malicious code slipping into ads on mainstream sites, the presence of third party javascript trackers on the login page of the bank means there are increased risk of privacy compromise or worse.

Some Banking Websites Have Third Party Trackers on Login Pages. Just like the danger of malicious code slipping into ads on mainstream sites, the presence of third party javascript trackers on the login page of the bank means there are increased risk of privacy compromise or worse.

Alguns sites bancários possuem rastreadores de terceiros nas páginas de login. Assim como o perigo de códigos maliciosos entrarem em anúncios em sites populares, a presença de rastreadores javascript de terceiros na página de login do banco significa que há um risco maior de comprometer a privacidade, ou pior.

The living, the dead and the unborn are all here with us: we must respect their interests and their world as much as our own.

Os vivos, os mortos e os que ainda não nasceram, estão todos aqui conosco: devemos respeitar seus interesses e seu mundo tanto quanto os nossos.

Bruce Schneier sobre eficiência e ineficiência em tempos de Covid-19.

Bruce Schneier about efficiency and inefficiency in times of Covid-19.

How to customize Slack so you get the notifications you need — when you need to get them

O Livro de Atividades do Organizador é um recurso de autoaprendizagem do Projeto Dados e Ativismo da Tactical Tech. O livro é uma coleção de exercícios divertidos para organizadores da sociedade civil que trabalham com dados pessoais de defensores de direitos humanos, investigadores, ativistas e outros que participam de ações sociais ou políticas.

The Organiser’s Activity Book is a self-learning resource from Tactical Tech’s Data and Activism project. The book is a collection of playful exercises for organisers within civil society who work with the personal data of human rights defenders, investigators, campaigners, and others who are taking part in social or political action.

A data trust works within the law to provide ethical, architecturaland governancesupport for trustworthy data processing.

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.

We are releasing a reference dataset of over 1 million privacy policy snapshots from more than 100,000 websites, spanning over two decades.

The proposal to link the EU’s facial recognition databases would likely connect them to the U.S. as well, in a massive consolidation of biometric data.

Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In all cases, modern mass surveillance has three broad components: identification, correlation and discrimination. Read more on Bruce Schneier’s blog on Security.

As GDPR becomes the norm, are marketers able to walk the tight-rope of consumer data and privacy? Acxiom and DMA study consumers’ take on data sharing.

Only one in ten European websites respects the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European privacy law, according to a study by MIT, UCL and Aarhus Universiteit.

Exhausting, expensive, and exclusive, these conferences needs to be modernized. The future of science depends on it.

A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.

Equitable access to the internet is a communication right. As the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) points out, not only is the internet a pathway to information, communication, and economic opportunity, it is increasingly necessary to access basic commercial and public services. As more of the world becomes digital, those unable to connect will inevitably be left behind.

Solving the unintended consequences of platform economies. The OAN is a public infrastructure that creates a new design space for Open Applications.

Host Tamara Khandaker is joined in studio by John Wunderlich, a privacy and security consultant, to discuss the uptick in phone call scams, and if there’s any way to actually stop them.

Medical data are considered particularly sensitive personal information. Laws and regulations in most countries, including the USA and throughout Europe, generally aim to restrict sharing such information with the target of building privacy walls around each person’s data. But making such health data available more broadly is key to improved medical care, research and the advance of health science. Finland is the first country known to have adopted an approach to allow third parties to access health data for the purposes of scientific research, drug and health technology development and knowledge-based management in social and health care.

Google and Facebook are backers of the Contract for the Web, which lists privacy as a core principle. But the companies continue to slurp up user data.

This is actually a summary post from a discussion on Slack of valuable online resources for recommended tools by @teemu.rpoonen, @John W., @Sille, and @Iain. Please also note that Tools is one of the focus topics in 2020 for MyData.

• Data Ethics Tools for Companies and Organisations
  
• Privacy Tools
  
• Security Planner
  
• De-google-ify Internet
  

A recommendation of privacy-friendly apps for use with iPhones and iPads.

World Economic Forum: As technology continues to permeate society, surviving the future depends on bringing technologists and policymakers together. Here's how we might achieve it.

Top-down, unsustainable Silicon Valley needs to learn from Africa, South Asia, and South America, where tech is built for and by users.

The much awaited new Greek data protection law has been criticised for the lack of conformity of its provisions with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The question is not whether a human-centric smart city can be built. The question is whether the citizen will be put at the center of their own data to make a wise city.

This article examines the evolution of the ‘Barcelona Model’ of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. We trace this evolution from an especially dogmatic worlding vision of the smart city, under a centre-right city council, to its radical repurposing under the auspices of a municipal government led, after May 2015, by the citizens’ platform Barcelona en Comú.

The Guardian has spent the past three months investigating how billions are being poured into AI innovations that are explosively recasting how low-income people interact with the state. Together, our reporters in the US, Britain, India and Australia have explored what amounts to the birth of the digital welfare state.

This article introduces the tenets of a theory of datafication of and in the Souths. It calls for a de-Westernization of critical data studies, in view of promoting a reparation to the cognitive injustice that fails to recognize non-mainstream ways of knowing the world through data.

Don't want your email service providers snooping on your emails? Here are the most secure email services that ensure your data remain private.

Google's sister company Sidewalk is proposing a large urban development project in Toronto - without any prior development experience. Privacy, privatization and governance concerns are worrying residents and government alike, despite a massive two-year lobbying campaign by Google. Ambiguous language in the proposal suggests that public spaces may not be so public, and that some of the most valuable land in North America may be handed over at a discount to one of the world's richest companies.

We want to determine by ourselves which personal details we share with others, and how they are used. We don’t want everyone to know what we do or think. We don’t want our boss to know what we discuss with our friends. We don’t want our personal information to be misinterprete doutside the original context. In other words, we want some privacy please.

Today, President-elect of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, revealed the list of nominated commissioners who will constitute the new College of Commissioners of the European Union for the next five years. The least we can say is that she has set the bar very high when it comes to regulating the digital economy. None less than three commissioners have been tasked with overseeing the digital economy within the European Union: Margrethe Vestager (digital watchdog), Didier Reynders (data protection commissioner), and Sylvie Goulard (promoter of the Digital Single Market)

The privacy tech vendor market continues to mature as more organizations around the world adopt products and services that help automate and streamline necessary functions for the privacy office and enterprise as a whole.

Startups are importing and imposing AI systems founded on individualistic and capitalist drives. “Mining” people for data is reminiscent of the colonizer attitude that declares humans as raw material.

An analysis shows that information flow between individuals in a social network can be ‘gerrymandered’ to skew perceptions of how others in the community will vote — which can alter the outcomes of elections.

In a country where privacy protections are considered weak and anything-goes data collection has become the norm, Chinese tech entrepreneur Yang Geng stands out. His service, LeakZero, helps people surf the web anonymously, protect passwords and send encrypted messages. By design, he can’t find out the names of the app’s users or even know how many there are. It doesn’t have a so-called ‘back door.’

Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all.

It is disappointing—but regrettably unsurprising—that the Chrome team is cloaking Google’s business priorities in disingenuous technical arguments.

Uber and Airbnb signify new ways of working and doing business by facilitating direct access to providers through new digitalised platforms. The gig economy is also beginning to percolate into legal practice through what is colloquially known as NewLaw.

The need to regulate online privacy is a truth so universally acknowledged that even Facebook and Google have joined the chorus of voices crying for change.