Senate Votes to Let ISPs Sell Your Data Without Consent – NBC News

Senate Votes to Let ISPs Sell Your Data Without Consent – NBC News

Senate Votes to Let ISPs Sell Your Data Without Consent - NBC News

Senate Votes to Let ISPs Sell Your Data Without Consent – NBC News

The Senate took the first step Thursday toward blocking rules that would restrict how some big tech companies share and sell your personal data, a prospect that digital activists said would be a huge loss for online privacy.On a party-line vote of 50-48, the Senate passed a joint resolution that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing rules it approved last year — when it was under Democratic control — that sought to ban internet service providers like cable and cellphone companies from selling your data without your consent.

Källa: Senate Votes to Let ISPs Sell Your Data Without Consent – NBC News

The End of the Universe as We Know It – The New Yorker

The End of the Universe as We Know It – The New Yorker

The End of the Universe as We Know It - The New Yorker

The End of the Universe as We Know It – The New Yorker

What if the world around us is just a shadow of reality? Imagine, for example, that you wake up one cold winter morning and look out your window to find that the view is completely obscured by beautiful ice crystals, forming strange patterns on the glass. You might see something like the image above: its beauty is striking at least in part because of the remarkable order at smaller scales lurking within the obvious randomness at larger scales. The ice crystals have grown gorgeous treelike patterns, starting in random directions and bumping into each other at odd angles. The dochotomy between small-scale order and large-scale randomness suggests that the universe would look very different to tiny physicists or mathematicians living on the spine of one of those ice crystals.

Källa: The End of the Universe as We Know It – The New Yorker

The End of the Universe as We Know It – The New Yorker

Ida Tin’s Battle to Build Clue, a Period-Tracking App – The New Yorker

Ida Tin’s Battle to Build Clue, a Period-Tracking App - The New Yorker

Ida Tin’s Battle to Build Clue, a Period-Tracking App – The New Yorker

 

Ida Tin wanted to build an app to help women track their periods. For months, she went door to door, pitching the concept to early-stage investors in Berlin, London, New York, and Silicon Valley. Often, Tin, a soft-spoken thirty-seven-year-old from Copenhagen with cerulean-framed glasses, was the only woman in the room. Many potential investors balked at the notion of software with inputs for levels of menstrual bleeding, breast tenderness, and sex drive, or the capacity to digitally share windows of ovulation with a partner. Time and again, Tin told me, the men sitting across from her in pitch meetings said, “I only invest in products I can use myself.” The idea embarrassed even some who saw its business potential; one venture capitalist who eventually made a small investment insisted that his involvement be kept private. But Tin persisted, cobbling together fifty thousand euros. She launched the app, called Clue, in 2013, basing it in Berlin. It quietly amassed millions of active users, primarily in the United States. “This was clearly not a noche product,” Tin said. This past November, Clue announced that it had closed a twenty-million-euro round of funding.

Källa: Ida Tin’s Battle to Build Clue, a Period-Tracking App – The New Yorker

When the mountains were wild

When the mountains were wild

When the mountains were wild

When the mountains were wild

 

Mitch Tölderer and Whiteroom Productions present `When the mountains were wild´
Winner of the Jones Adventure Grand 2015 & Winner of Mountainfilm Graz Kamera Alpin in Gold for best Austrian movie.

On the search for mountain wilderness in Europe a crew of five snowboarders/skiers/filmmakers drove down from Austria through several Balkan countries and witnessed the debris of the Yugoslavian war for the first time. Their destination was the incredibly beautiful and wild Valbona Valley where time had seemed to stand still for a long time. After studying vague maps, checking weather conditions they found themselves on a 25km hike to a promising looking zone in the heart of these mountains and came to a stop in a little abandoned shepherd hut. Six days of heavy snowstorm later the crew woke up in Freeride heaven and enjoyed a well-earned magic day in the snow. Watch the movie and see what more craziness our team faced on this wonderful journey.

Freeriding off the beaten tracks!

Riders: Mitch Tölderer, Johannes Hoffmann & Klaus Zwirner
Filmed by Jakob Schweighofer & Johannes Hoffmann
Still Photography Carlos Blanchard
Edited by Simon Platzer & Johannes Hoffmann
Directed by Mitch Tölderer & Whiteroom Productions
Idea by Mitch Tölderer

Music:

“Walls” by Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys armyoftoys.com
“Black Lamp subtune 1 (codename whistler)” by Mahoney
“Gfrei di” by Skero; Album: Der Riese im Glashaus skero.at
“Late as Usual” by Freak Fandango Orchestra
“Music for Strings, Percussion And Celesta (Movement III) by Belá Bartók
“Black Rainbow” by Pitx
“vitamins” by hansatom
“Klimper Klimper” by Dashnor Hysaj

Whiteroom Productions:
whiteroom-productions.com
facebook.com/WhiteroomProductions.Official/
instagram.com/whiteroomproductions/

Jones:
jonessnowboards.com/

POC:
pocsports.com

Patagonia:
patagonia.com

Functional Sportstraining:
functional-sports-training.com

Whiteroom Productions is an independent TV and movie production from Innsbruck/Tyrol, Austria. We specialize in the production of high-quality ski films, image videos, films and image spots, music videos, sports and outdoor films. The center of our creative work is in the heart of Innsbruck, the beautiful capital of Tyrol. In our office we produce professional advertising videos and image films that are tailored to the individual needs of our customers.

Senate Votes to Let ISPs Sell Your Data Without Consent – NBC News

WhatsApp must be accessible to intelligence services, says Rudd | Technology | The Guardian

WhatsApp must be accessible to intelligence services, says Rudd | Technology | The Guardian

WhatsApp must be accessible to intelligence services, says Rudd | Technology | The Guardian

 

Technology companies should no longer be able to provide encrypted messaging services that cannot be accessed in emergencies by the security services, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, said on Sunday.Speaking after it emerged that the police were investigating reports that Khalid Masood had used the encrypted WhatsApp service just before he launched the attack in Westminister, in whoch he killed four people, Rudd said it was “completely unacceptable” that the police and security services were shut out from messages of this kind.She also signalled a renewed determination to stop internet companies publishing extremist material online by declaring that they now had to accept they were “publishing companies”, with the responsibilities that went with that, not just technology firms providing a platform.

Källa: WhatsApp must be accessible to intelligence services, says Rudd | Technology | The Guardian