Link below George Harrison Brainwashed
Oct 19, 2020 — Brainwashed was the first posthumous George Harrison album. It was released a year after his death, and 15 years after his previous studio album, Cloud Nine.
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Data Concerns
Just ask InBloom. You might remember reading about the extremely ambitious non-profit ed-tech startup, backed with $100 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. It aimed to amass and organize huge amounts of student data for public school districts across the country, making it easier for teachers to access information and chart the progress of their students. Reformers saw it as the first step toward tech-enabled, personalized education, but some concerned parents saw it as an Orwellian monster that fed on their children’s most sensitive information—like social security numbers and parents’ marital status. Last April, after the New York state legislature passed a regulation forbidding the department of education from sharing student information with third-party aggregators, the company announced it was shutting down.
To this day, many ed-tech enthusiasts see InBloom as a cautionary tale of parental hysteria run amok—a sign of how unaddressed fears can sink even the most benevolent efforts. And they argue that privacy concerns are overblown. “Startup companies are really waking up to how carefully they need to walk around data in this world,” says Betsy Corcoran, who runs Edsurge , a news hub that connects teachers and entrepreneurs. “The vast majority don’t have plans to sell the data to someone else. That’s not been a dominant business model.” Which is a good thing, considering that lawmakers are moving to clamp down on any trade in information about students. In September, California passed the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, which forbids companies from selling student data or using it for any non-educational purposes. In January, President Obama pushed for similar legislation at the federal level when he announced his Student Digital Privacy Act. And so far 112 companies have signed the student data privacy pledge , a voluntary promise to safeguard the information they collect.
Still, in a world rife with NSA chicanery and shifting business plans, it’s not hard to sympathize with wary parents. Indeed, when everyone from Target to JPMorgan Chase has fallen victim to data breaches, it’s difficult to trust that even the most sophisticated tech company will be able to truly protect students’ data. And these aren’t always the most sophisticated tech companies we’re talking about here. Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who has studied the security practices of education technology startups, says he’s been horrified by what he’s found—including programs that didn’t use the secure https protocol or that don’t hide passwords as users enter them. “Very straightforward technical problems, stuff that should be licked by businesses that have even a modest degree of sophistication, those are the mistakes that are being made right and left,” he says. “In 2015, this is almost tech malpractice.”
Kids Are Different
Let’s be honest. If we were always this cautious about data, the Internet economy as we know it would never exist. Many of the innovations of the last couple of decades have sprung directly from our willingness to blithely let Google track our web activity or post photos of our families on Facebook or share our innermost thoughts with the world on Twitter or allow apps to know where we are at any given moment. From time to time, we grow alarmed—when we learn that Facebook has changed its privacy settings or that the NSA has been storing our email or that Uber executives are sharing our real-time travel data to impress people at parties —but not enough to actually change our behavior. An entire ideology has sprung up among tech startups—move fast, break things; it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission—encouraging founders to trample convention, offend sensibilities, and risk screwing up. It’s the cost of progress. © Provided by Wired
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