2022-09-20
At last, Indonesia has a data protection law! “Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the bill, which authorises the president to form an oversight body to fine data handlers for breaching rules on distributing or gathering personal data.” https://www.reuters.com/... h/t @dinitaputri
Reuters
Indonesia's parliament passes a personal data protection bill into law, including corporate fines and imprisonment for mishandling data, after a series of leaks
Stanley Widianto / Reuters :
2022-06-30
“[Zhengzhou] city officials changed the [COVID health app] codes of more than a thousand people to red to prevent them from protesting against the potential loss of their savings in local rural banks that are on the brink of collapse.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Officials in Zhengzhou, China, used a location-based health code system to prevent protests by forcing 1,000+ depositors of failing rural banks to quarantine
Financial Times : Tweets: @chinabeigebook , @ftchina , @mmaunder , @wessiedutoit , @empo11on , @dr_ulrichsen , @financialtimes , @alexisak , and @1br0wn Tweets: @chinabeigebook : ...
2022-03-28
Addiction as a service: “Cerebral and Done make money by charging patients on medication a monthly fee. Prescriptions for controlled substances are typically renewed monthly, so patients who want to continue their prescription must pay the recurring fee.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: health startups Cerebral and Done used looser pandemic rules and pressure on clinicians to prescribe stimulants, often via 30-minute online evaluations
2021-11-03
“The introduction of data protection laws in China has transformed what was unglamorous compliance work into a critical role. Salaries are soaring as companies scramble to hire DPOs, especially since staff will be held personally responsible for failures.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Company salaries of data protection officers are soaring across China after laws were introduced that hold the officers personally responsible for any failures
Sweeping legislation has created huge demand but job risks have risen alongside salaries — Chinese data protection officers …
2020-10-26
Has @WFP published anything yet on the results of its work with @PalantirTech? I ask having read in @NYTmag that “Palantir's tech has played a 𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 in WFP's effort to get food and supplies distributed amid the pandemic.” Where's the evidence?! https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir's trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel's relationship with Trump
2020-10-25
Has @WFP published anything yet on the results of its work with @PalantirTech? I ask having read in @NYTmag that “Palantir's tech has played a 𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 in WFP's effort to get food and supplies distributed amid the pandemic.” Where's the evidence?! https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir's trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel's relationship with Trump
The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends. Tweets: @chrisamccoy , @empo11on , @chrisamccoy , ...
2020-01-01
Starting January, YouTube will limit the data it collects on videos designed for kids to comply with a US federal privacy clampdown. *The burden is falling on makers of videos to designate whether the content they post is targeted at kids.* https://www.wsj.com/... via @nattyray11
New York Post
Report: in January, YouTube will expand limitations on the data that videos aimed at kids can collect and stop showing personalized ads to underage viewers
Hannah Frishberg / New York Post :
2019-12-31
Starting January, YouTube will limit the data it collects on videos designed for kids to comply with a US federal privacy clampdown. *The burden is falling on makers of videos to designate whether the content they post is targeted at kids.* https://www.wsj.com/... via @nattyray11
New York Post
Report: in January, YouTube will expand limitations on the data that videos aimed at kids can collect and stop showing personalized ads to underage viewers
Children are worth their weight in data to YouTube creators, who're scrambling to stop the Federal Trade Commission from taking that income away.