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Posted on 12 June 202312 June 2023

Strava – privacy issues… again…

If you share information online and are not extremely careful on what you share, then someone somewhere will work out how to exploit that information. Now I thought people who used Strava understood this as there has been plenty in the past of Strava compromising military security let alone personal …

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Posted on 20 May 202315 May 2023

Passwordless is coming – Google says so

passwordless

Here is a keynote article from Google looking at the steps it is taking to make the online experience safer. Google I/O 2023: New features to improve online safety (blog.google) It is worth the read as it does illustrate what the threats and risks are when operating online – both …

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Posted on 15 April 202314 April 2023

What Musk had to say to the BBC.

There has been a lot of negative press about Twitter lately – I have covered it on Smart Thinking – this interview by James Clayton, the BBC North America tech reporter, is worth listening to as it is Elon Musk’s own words about Twitter and the state the company is …

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Posted on 21 March 202321 March 2023

See what Elon Musk’s Twitter responses can do…

Elon's Twitter messes up

A couple of weeks back I posted a link to an article by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation and social media correspondent, that examined how Twitter was functioning having now laid so many people off – many of whom appeared to be working as Twitter’s social conscience. Twitter, trolls, child …

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Posted on 17 January 202317 January 2023

Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Bill

The worldwide community encyclopaedia, Wikipedia has spoken out against the UK Online Safety Bill. The Wikipedia Foundation does not want community based organisations to be treated as a “Big Tech” company. How organisation are treated in the bill depends on their size not their operations. Wikipedia criticises ‘harsh’ new Online …

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