When my sister-in-law died months ago, the pandemic prevented us from getting together to mourn her unexpected death. While we dealt with the detritus of death like cleaning out her apartment and dealing with filings, we could not get together with friends and family who all wanted to remember her in some way. Yesterday morning,…
Category: Misc
Merry Christmas
2020 has been a rruff year. Hope you have a Merry Christmas! PogoWasRight.org will be back with the news later in the day.
Other news items this week….
Here are just a few of the many interesting news stories and links Joe Cadillic compiled this week: China-Huawei and Megvii Designed Facial Recognition System to Target Uighur Minorities: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/08/huawei-tested-ai-software-that-could-recognize-uighur-minorities-alert-police-report-says/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/12/huawei-uighurs-identify/ China-Facial Recognition Is Running Amok Across The Country. The People Are Pushing Back: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adnyq/facial-recognition-is-running-amok-in-china-the-people-are-pushing-back China-Government suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks:…
Notable Privacy and Security Books 2020
Professor Daniel Solove is indefatigable when it comes to promoting privacy scholarship and sharing what he knows. Now he has compiled a list of some notable books on privacy and security from 2020. You can access his list here. “But wait… there’s more!” To see a more comprehensive list of nonfiction works about privacy and…