Quick Notes

By Johannes Ernst

https://reb00ted.org/quick-notes/

• 2020-02-07

  Move over, Sherlock Holmes

  • virus
  • coronavirus
  • health

  Who got the virus from whom? A chart from Singapore.

  

• 2020-02-06

  Download all your meaningless data

  • ccpa

  Weather.com lets you download a JSON file with all your personal data per the California Consumer Privacy Act. One of the locations I checked the weather at is 193ae648ec30e1c1f5cdb2e4e7db1b0…. No lookup is provided. What does the CCPA say about that?

  Link to “data rights” at weather.com – check your’s.

• 2020-02-06

  Pricing the poor out of health

  • healthcare
  • us

  “Among poorest 20 percent of Americans, one-third of income goes to health care”. While too many providers and insurers get big, fat, and happy. Hippocratic oath, anybody?

• 2020-02-05

  Consent-o-Matic

  • privacy
  • consent
  • browser

  A browser extension that that automatically answers consent pop-ups for you. h/t @dmarti

  Thread on Twitter

• 2020-02-05

  Fair Data Economy

  • privacy
  • mydata

  The Finns are at it and they have done a lot of research.

• 2020-02-05

  Hacking Facebook for power

  • ads
  • election

  The Web Foundation reports scary numbers:

  • the Trump campaign ran 5.9 million different online ads during 2016 campaign
  • 789% growth in online ad spending for 2016 presidential election from 2012

  Link

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