• Zoom Is a Nightmare. So Why Is Everyone Still Using It?

  “Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan calls Zoom a “privacy disaster,” filled with “creepy” features that send tracking data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account and tell meeting hosts if attendees aren’t paying attention. Zoom’s privacy policy allows it to use what it calls “customer content” for advertising purposes.”

  Tags: ITGS, zoom, VideoConferencing, surveillance capitalism, privacy and anonymity

  • – By dr tech

• Some shirts hide you from cameras—but will anyone wear them? | Ars Technica

  “In short, it’s not great out there if you’re a person who cares about privacy, and it’s likely to keep getting worse. In the long run, pressure on state and federal regulators to enact and enforce laws that can limit the collection and use of such data is likely to be the most efficient way to effect change. But in the shorter term, individuals have a conundrum before them: can you go out and exist in the world without being seen?”

  Tags: ITGS, surveillance, privacy and anonymity, facial recognition

  • – By dr tech

• Tech giants struggle to stem ‘infodemic’ of false coronavirus claims | World news | The Guardian

  “It is a stark contrast to how social media platforms have dealt with misinformation in the past.”

  Tags: ITGS, infodemic, fakenews, data, disinformation, social media, COVID-19, systems, control, politics and government

  • – By dr tech

• New IoT botnet launches stealthy DDoS attacks, spreads malware

  “A new botnet is actively targeting IoT devices using payloads compiled for a dozen CPU architectures and uses them to launch several types of DDoS and to spread various types of malware.

  The Dark Nexus botnet as it was named by the Bitdefender researchers who discovered it has gone through a very fast development process since it was initially spotted.”

  Tags: ITGS, botnet, DDoS, malware, security, IoT, CPU

  • – By dr tech

• NHS coronavirus app: memo discussed giving ministers power to ‘de-anonymise’ users | World news | The Guardian

  “A draft government memo explaining how the NHS contact-tracing app could stem the spread of the coronavirus said ministers might be given the ability to order “de-anonymisation” to identify people from their smartphones, the Guardian can reveal.

  The health secretary, Matt Hancock, announced on Sunday that the UK planned to introduce an app that would enable people who developed Covid-19 symptoms to “anonymously” alert other users to whom they had been in close proximity. “All data will be handled according to the highest ethical and security standards, and would only be used for NHS care and research,” he said.”

  Tags: ITGS, COVID-19, app, anonymise, privacy and anonymity

  • – By dr tech

• Volunteers create world’s fastest supercomputer to combat coronavirus | Technology | The Guardian

  “According to Folding@Home, the organisation that runs the distributed computing effort, the combined power of the network broke 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second – or one “exaflop” – on 25 March.”

  Tags: ITGS, COVID-19, exaflop, supercomputer, ai, machine learning, botnet, people and machines, digital citizenship

  • – By dr tech

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