Sen. Markey Writes to 14 Car Companies with a Variety of Questions About Data Privacy Policies (www.markey.senate.gov)
ArsTechnica article on the letter. Just a short summary, with some more context on other works and investigations into the auto industry's privacy issues....
23andMe hackers accessed ancestry information on millions of customers using a feature that matches relatives (www.engadget.com)
Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights (leftfootforward.org)
'The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.'...
Cat Meow Machine, for scaring mice, Japan, 1963 (lemmy.world)
Official character posters for Dune Part 2 (imgur.com)
It's a lot of fun! (lemmy.world)
Peru archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummies of children in Lima (www.reuters.com)
We're all residents here. (mander.xyz)
Cool Flatpak apps to try for December - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
Best Movies of 2023 (NY Times) (web.archive.org)
Another Look At The Bcachefs Performance on Linux 6.7 Review (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr...
[REVIEW] Jeff Tomsic - Tag (search.inetol.net)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/16511176...
New laws allowing the Department for Work and Pensions to monitor the bank accounts of benefit claimants are predicted to lead to 7,400 extra prosecutions for fraud each year – resulting in 250 custodial sentences. (www.publictechnology.net)
Impact assessment forecasts that prosecutions will rocket, but claims staff will take ‘account of circumstances and vulnerabilities’ of benefit recipients and ‘no automatic decisions will be made on data alone’...
The screams, the terrible screams (mander.xyz)
A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits an extraordinary archaeological claim (www.nature.com)
Btrfs Slated To Make Use Of New Mount API In Linux 6.8 (www.phoronix.com)
A new McCarthyism is being enforced around the Israel-Hamas conflict (inews.co.uk)
Archive link: archive.is/0q4t3
have a nice day (slrpnk.net)
Stolen remains of Aboriginal people and Tasmanian tigers traced to grave-robbing Victorian naturalist (www.livescience.com)
India tunnel collapse: All workers rescued after group trapped for more than two weeks in Uttarakhand (news.sky.com)
All 41 workers rescued from collapsed Indian tunnel after 17 days (www.aljazeera.com)
In Africa’s first ‘safe city,’ surveillance reigns (www.codastory.com)
Nairobi boasts nearly 2,000 Huawei surveillance cameras citywide. But in the nine years since they were installed, it is hard to see their benefits.