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GDPR will increase reported breaches and trigger a flood of ‘Right to be Forgotten’ requests

Jun10
by on June 10, 2018 at 12:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now being enforced, and 60 percent of affected businesses are not prepared. This is concerning, but I’m not here to spread the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). GDPR is a good thing. It requires businesses to better protect any personal data of EU citizens that they control or process. Ironically, over the coming months, it’s going to look like companies are doing a worse job at protecting the data, because they’re also required to better understand and monitor data privacy and more diligently report any breaches – which means… We’ll see a significant…

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Research: Restricting free speech isn’t the solution to violence and hate speech

Jun10
by on June 10, 2018 at 8:30 am
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The fight to protect freedom of speech is ancient and can be traced through history from Socrates, Milton, and Voltaire to Hypatia and Goldman. The issue is currently undergoing a resurgence with figures like Jordan Peterson, Christina Hoff Sommers, Count Dankula, Sarah Silverman, Laci Green, Amy Schumer, and so on. Whether politics or comedy, left-wing, right-wing, or apolitical, free speech permeates every aspect of life. What’s more is that censorship has led to some of the world’s greatest tragedies and most oppressive authoritarian regimes. Most people want less violence, racism, sexism, and bigotry. In order to achieve this, we must…

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Religion isn’t the opiate of the masses — AI is

Jun09
by on June 9, 2018 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Opinion


Overall leisure time has increased by over an hour per day in the past ten years. How are we spending these extra 365 hours per year? Not playing with our kids, working on passion projects, exercising, or any other wholesome activity you may have guessed — we’re spending it in front of screens. In 2007, just 33 percent of leisure time was spent on screens; today, that number has increased to 47 percent — over three and a half hours per day. According to research from McKinsey, smartphone users interact with their devices an average of 85 times a day and…

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